John Gilmore writes:
The right competitive strategy is to build strong crypto using 168-bit Triple-DES, in a country that has a sane government and a respect for privacy.
You mean, like SSH's product? For those that don't follow this, people who don't want to have their communications listened in on are free to buy high quality communications security products from SSH Communications Security, Ltd. Their stuff is distributed internationally by Datafellows, and includes 3DES, 128 bit IDEA, and plenty of other high quality crypto products -- you configure it for the cipher of your choice. Key management is handled with arbitrary key length RSA -- you, the user, tune the length of the key, not the NSA. The software is available free for noncommercial use and can be downloaded on the net. Commercial users must pay a license fee. This is only one such company. Most such companies are doing fine, and aren't playing along with stupidity propagaged inside the beltway. Perry