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Re: 56 bit crypto exportable?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tamaster@technologist.com)
Thu Apr 17 16:20:22 1997
From: tamaster@technologist.com
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 11:59:26 -0500 (CDT)
To: cryptography@c2.net
The original release of this announcement from PRNewswire has an
additional paragraph of some interest:
> Previous approvals for encryption export allowed the
> use of strong encryption (over 40-bit) only with
> inclusion of a trusted third party having access to the
> keys. The approval given V-ONE not only clears the
> way for customers overseas to install 56-bit
> SmartGate encryption immediately. The Department
> of Commerce also assured V-ONE that customers
> using its Trusted First Party key management
> infrastructure (KMI) solution will be permitted to
> increase key length as much as desired.
If this is true, would this indicate a mechanism by which support
for replacement of the session encryption is provided? Or are we
merely talking about the PK encryption key length (while still
using single DES for the session crypto). It looked to me to be
a rather misleading placement of this sentence in the context of
the statement refering to the 56-bit session encryption key length.
It is also stated in the release posted on their web site:
http://www.v-one.com/html/body_comm.html
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