Tim Griffiths wrote:
However I 'export' PGP from the US, I'm exporting it, even if I have a web site for each bit, 0 or 1 being determined by whether Clinton has a cigar or not in a posted picture.
Hence the best way, once there are strict export regulations, is not to export. One moves rather knowledge (thought) across the country boundaries and there build locally the desired software. That's why I believe it will be increasingly more essential for the future to have good crypto algorithms that are very simple to describe and implement. Whether these are very fast is at most of secondary importance. For really very critical applications seldom involve huge volumes and even if they do the computing cost hardly matters and one can employ multiple hardware to achieve the required rate of transmission. M. K. Shen ------------------------------------------------------ M. K. Shen, Postfach 340238, D-80099 Muenchen, Germany +49 (89) 831939 (6:00 GMT) mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de http://www.stud.uni-muenchen.de/~mok-kong.shen/ (Last updated: 10th October 1998. Origin site of WEAK1, WEAK2, WEAK3 and WEAK3-E. Containing 2 mathematical problems with rewards totalling US$500.)