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Re: Questions for Magaziner?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Weinstein)
Mon Sep 21 19:50:36 1998
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 14:13:39 -0700
From: Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com>
To: "Arnold G. Reinhold" <reinhold@world.std.com>
CC: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net,
cryptography@c2.net, dcsb@ai.mit.edu
> Arnold G. Reinhold wrote:
>
> 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.)
Actually, it wouldn't be any easier to deploy 56-bit RC4 than DES. Either
would require roughly the same changes to both clients and servers.
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