[3886] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Triple DES "standard"?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Rose)
Fri Jan 1 00:03:36 1999
To: salzr@certco.com
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 29 Dec 1998 21:36:05 CDT.
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Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 13:11:06 +1100
From: Greg Rose <ggr@qualcomm.com>
salzr@certco.com writes:
>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."
It was Phil Karn, I've seen the form. He was trying to export a VPN box
of some kind to the QUALCOMM office in Singapore. They did allow IDEA,
eventually. Phil thinks that allowing a 128-bit algorithm but not 112-bit
3des was some sort of mind game.
>Trolling through the cypherpunks archives around 12-18 months ago should
>find the
>story.
I think it was longer ago than that; they already knew what to ask for
for the (now 2 1/2 year old) Australian office.
regards,
Greg.
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