[3777] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Web Hosting Providers in Many Countries? For crypto archives.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mok-Kong Shen)
Wed Dec 9 16:35:44 1998
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 17:59:32 +0100
From: Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de>
To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
CC: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net, cryptography@c2.net
Bill Stewart wrote:
>
> And, of course, shipping or even selling source for 40-bit RC4
> and 512-bit RSA is pretty simple, even if you don't include the note
> "WARNING: DO NOT CHANGE THE #define KEYLENGTH TO 128 OR THE
> #define MODULUSLENGTH TO 2048 AND RECOMPILE"
Software that are parametrizable would thus all be able to escape
the export regulations that way, I believe. But they would pose
strict laws on the use, i.e. actual key size employed by the user,
as is the case in France, if I don't err. That will be the real
problem, I am afraid.
M. K. Shen
