-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org> writes:
What the US government will allow to be exported is not "strong encryption." It is encryption only slightly too strong to be broken by an amateur effort. For the right investment in custom hardware, it falls quickly. (500,000 $US = 3.5 hour avg break).
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In other words, the surveilance state is still winning, and American business is still losing.
Umm, I'm not expert, but it seems to me that the proposal removes the "munitions" classification. It seems the USG has removed its defense in court chanllenges to export restrictions. Am I totally off-base here? Jer "standing on top of the world/ never knew how you never could/ never knew why you never could live/ innocent life that everyone did" -Wormhole -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQB1AwUBMo5nCMkz/YzIV3P5AQGV6wMAgvyLL+A+aYqDFJIPoXSA5g9Bl2NHObJs wduNAvsxKSWANYRAOpEm+HKlhVCIHH0ZGQvRTVTrcsLn2AV56HuaR9xOX4dud3kZ F0rYapIKCyfyj7E3RagYGigXcDSXIWe2 =lKg5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----