M-K Shen wrote:

Robert Hettinga wrote:

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Sameer Parekh, the president of the Web server company C2 Net, said: "I think it's essential if you want business that you're doing your development overseas. It's pretty clear to anyone internationally that anything exportable [from the United States] is a joke."

Let's wait and see whether AES will be genuinely exportable.

Why wait? None of the AES candidates is currently exportable without a license, and the much weaker DES algorithm that one of them will replace is not exportable without a license. In fact, according to the instructions posted at NIST the algorithm designers from outside the US and Canada were required to fill out export license applications in order to get a copy of their own algorithms back from NIST. Without a change in the regulations AES will be no more exportable than DES is now. Jim Gillogly