Re: Emphasizing a point by Donald Eastlake re key recovery

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 10:25 AM 9/25/97 -6, Peter Trei wrote:
Well, I dunno. About 18 months ago, I was involved with the negotiations over the exportability of an SSL equipped web server I had helped develop. The export model used 40 bit RC4 and 512 bit keys. The initial version used 3DES to encrypt stored private keys, and this was turned down. I modified it to use single DES, and it passed.
Note that this was for secret key storage only.
This should be listed as yet another outrage of the current system -- perhaps reason to start another lawsuit. - Carl -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNCra7FQXJENzYr45AQECaQP/aqrptzzWdwjJsseEtIKGckIg0mXLRAFk APtO4O4hzeZJDVJ7QPKtJc6BqSU8uT5gs44rJR3SrUZ3g0D5RG4zyjue30Drhyor bmqQKJXsbtIW/wk0uPXA3EyfRusjUr51yVjPdkwhRsh6ta5YIvAusTAonSjAoJrf AL+F9+pFBPw= =yC89 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Carl M. Ellison cme@cybercash.com http://www.clark.net/pub/cme | |CyberCash, Inc. http://www.cybercash.com/ | |207 Grindall Street PGP 2.6.2: 61E2DE7FCB9D7984E9C8048BA63221A2 | |Baltimore MD 21230-4103 T:(410) 727-4288 F:(410)727-4293 | +------------------------------------------------------------------+
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