Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 23:11:40 +0300 (EEST) From: Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Just FYI.. Message-ID: <199705292011.XAA25219@silver.sms.fi> In-Reply-To: <29218.864934016@time.cdrom.com> References: <29218.864934016@time.cdrom.com>
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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
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