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Re: practical encryption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mok-Kong Shen)
Thu Jul 23 12:58:34 1998
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 16:42:00 +0100
From: Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de>
To: cryptography@c2.net
Nelson Minar wrote:
>
> I think the single most important use of crypto facing us now is
> IPSEC. It gives the Internet authentication and encryption. We should
> design the protocols to be strong, yes. We should raise hell about 40
> bit limits, and develop the crypto in a free country so everyone has
> access to the strong system. But we can't lose sight of the more
> fundamental message, that we need the cryptography.
>
> Or is this horribly naive?
Time seems to be the critical issue. The cardinality of the set of
free countries is monotone decreasing.
M. K. Shen
