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Re: Questions for Magaziner?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arnold G. Reinhold)
Fri Sep 18 13:23:57 1998
In-Reply-To: <v04011700b22791ad2d2d@[139.167.130.248]>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 08:16:13 +0100
To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net,
cryptography@c2.net, dcsb@ai.mit.edu
From: "Arnold G. Reinhold" <reinhold@world.std.com>
At 12:38 AM -0400 9/18/98, Robert Hettinga wrote:
>I spoke at the Electronic Payments Forum here in Boston today, and,
>tomorrow, the keynote for tomorrow's lunch is Ira Magaziner.
...
>
>Anyway, In light of more recent crypto-shenanigans from Billary, and the
>fact that this thing's a small crowd, I figured I'd ask if anyone on these
>lists had a question they wanted me to ask him.
>
One question I'd like asked is whether the US Gov will approve 56-bit RC-4
for export on the same terms as 56-bit DES. That would allow export
versions of web browsers to be upgraded painlessly, making international
e-commerce 64 thousand times more secure than existing 40-bit browsers.
(56-bit DES browsers would require every merchant to upgrade their SSL
servers and introduce a lot of unneeded complexity.)
Arnold Reinhold
