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From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au>
Subject: Re: Blowfish/Twofish
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0x1c <nick@shibumi.feralmonkey.org> wrote:
>On a similar note, is there any restriction on one-way hashing algorithms?
>I forget.
AFAIK, there isn't.  MD4, MD5, SHA-1 etc appear to be all be freely
exportable.  The export restrictions appear to be on crypto for
`secrecy', whilst crypto for `authentication' is unrestricted.
(This does suggest that some lessons in basic cryptography are
needed around the US State Department).

Note: IANAL and free legal advice is worth what you paid for it.

Peter


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