"Mark" == Mark Rosen <mrosen@peganet.com> writes: Mark> Note: 5A002 does not control the following: b. Equipment Mark> containing ``fixed'' data compression or coding techniques; Mark> ... g. Data authentication equipment that calculates a Mark> Message Authentication Code (MAC) or similar result to Mark> ensure no alteration of text has taken place, or to Mark> authenticate users, but does not allow for encryption of Mark> data, text or other media other than that needed for the Mark> authentication;
But wasn't that the gist of Rivest's paper: he's not encrypting the message, he's just obscuring it really, really well. All this needs someone with the cash & the time to push it to court... -- Stephen --- all coders are created equal; that they are endowed with certain unalienable rights, of these are beer, net connectivity, and the pursuit of bugfixes... - Gregory R Block