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RE: Triple DES "standard"?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (salzr@certco.com)
Wed Dec 30 20:08:01 1998
From: salzr@certco.com
To: "'Vin McLellan'" <vin@shore.net>
Cc: <Cryptography@c2.net>
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 21:36:05 -0500
In-Reply-To: <v04003a11b2af15616e86@[198.115.179.81]>
> A couple years ago, when the X9 committee -- or maybe one of the X9
>crypto subcommittees -- rejected that advice and initially recommended that
>3DES be made a standard, I was told that the NSA rep angrily declared that
>3DES would _never_ get an export license and would never be shipped
>overseas. (Which may have put a damper on the 3DES standardization
>effort;-)
I heard the same story, but don't recall the source either.
Someone (memory says Phil Karn, but I'm probably wrong) applied for some
kind of
export license and was denied. Interestingly, the form had an
obviously-newly-added
reason appended to the "checklist of reasons for denial." The addition was
"uses
triple-DES."
Trolling through the cypherpunks archives around 12-18 months ago should
find the
story.
/r$
