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IDEA exportable? was Re: triple DES
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Sat Jan 2 23:49:24 1999
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 22:11:46 +0100
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
To: cryptography@c2.net
At 01:11 PM 12/31/98 +1100, Greg Rose wrote:
>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.
Or perhaps IDEA's security is less strong than thought?
