17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
It is legal to export full DES, in binary form, to banks outside the US. In other words, a company in the US can create a financial package that uses DES, even for encryption, and sell it to a bank outside the US. THe caveat is that DES can only be used to encrypt the financial transactions, not arbitrary data. I hope this helps. -derek