From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 15 05:52:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA05800 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 05:52:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nimbus.superior.net (root@nimbus.superior.net [206.153.96.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA05790 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 05:52:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from exidor@localhost) by nimbus.superior.net (8.7.6/8.7.5) id IAA25479; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 08:52:00 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199610151252.IAA25479@nimbus.superior.net> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 08:51:59 -0400 From: exidor@nimbus.superior.net (Christopher Masto) To: nelson@acronet.net (Jeremy Nelson) Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Exportability of MD5, general case In-Reply-To: <199610150630.BAA29200@nemesis.acronet.net>; from Jeremy Nelson on Oct 15, 1996 01:30:08 -0500 References: <199610150630.BAA29200@nemesis.acronet.net> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.47 Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jeremy Nelson writes: > My question is, is the legality of exporting MD5 limited only to how > one uses MD5 or is it legal to do anything with the value returned by > the MD5 functions? Would my idea be illegal to export? Or is the > XOR encryption algorithm fundamentally insecure (which is not a big > problem, im only looking for a nominal increase in security, not a > massive increase), that the government doesnt consider it to be dangerous? That's not even a 'nominal' increase; breaking XOR is trivial and doesn't require guessing the key. -- / Christopher Masto \ / Superior Net Services \ / Your vote counts \ | exidor@superior.net | | $24.95/month unlimited use | | Support free speech | \ Programmer/Tech / \ http://www.superior.net/ / \ HappyNet for all /