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From: Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi>
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Just FYI..
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Jordan K. Hubbard writes:
 > 
 >  The software, which Sun will offer worldwide, could help ignite electronic
 > commerce over the Internet. It could also lead to an all-out brawl between
 > Sun and the Feds.
 > 
 >  It is now illegal for a U.S. company to export encryption software that
 > exceeds 56-bit encoding. But it is legal to import such technology from
 > abroad, presuming the domestic vendor had no role in its development.
 > 
 >  "The government will try to link Sun to the development of this product
 > and go after them, or this will open the floodgates on strong encryption,"
 > said John O'Leary, the director of education at the Computer Security
 > Institute in San Francisco.
 > 
I wonder why the press makes so much of an issue about this since SSH
has been available across the globe with 128 bit triple-des for
years...

Pete