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Re: German government press release on Wassenaar
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexander Kjeldaas)
Mon Dec 14 10:21:48 1998
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 11:06:16 +0100
From: Alexander Kjeldaas <astor@guardian.no>
To: Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de>,
Alexander Kjeldaas <astor@guardian.no>
Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ulf_M=F6ller?= <ulf@fitug.de>, cryptography@c2.net,
cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <3674C269.BBE545D5@stud.uni-muenchen.de>; from Mok-Kong Shen on Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 08:46:49AM +0100
On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 08:46:49AM +0100, Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
>
> a. "Public domain" is defined in the document you refer to, by the
> indentations under Item 1.
>
> b1. 128-bit software is never exempt.
>
> b2. 64-bit software is exempt if you meet ALL of the other criteria.
>
> b3. The limit of exemption is 56 bits, if you do not meet all of the
> other criteria.
>
> See my other response where this is explained from Catgory 5 - Part 2.
> Unfortunately, one key statement is missing from the General Software
> Note and it contains the magic word "ALL."
>
I haven't heard anything about there not being any exemption on
128-bit crypto. To my knowledge there is a general exemption on all
Open Source software, regardless of the key length. However, I will
check into this.
astor
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Alexander Kjeldaas, Guardian Networks AS, Trondheim, Norway
http://www.guardian.no/
