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From: Jack Repenning <jackr@dblues.engr.sgi.com> In a November letter to committee members, the NSA threatened to prevent the export of triple- DES, citing existing US law and potential threats to national security (see attached NSA letter). Oh, no, surely not. There must be some misunderstanding here - they *promised* they wouldn't block export of non-Clipper things. They wouldn't lie!
There's already some extra slack in the law and the official policy for exporting encryption for use in banking; the NSA could get around it by asking the banking regulators to impose some sort of Key Forfeiture nonsense, which wouldn't lose much privacy since most banks are already pretty cooperative about such things. On the other hand, banks are rich enough to hire some off-shore programmer to write triple-DES implementations, given the current protocols, as well as to lobby CONgress or the administration to keep the NSA in line.