Relative Strength of 40-bit Crypto Implementations

Vin McLellan vin at shore.net
Mon Jan 6 22:30:26 PST 1997


	A client asked me today about where he could find evidence of the
relative strength of different encryption algorithms, when all are
restricted to 40-bit keys.  He assumed dot-Gov was going to restrict his
export product to the 40-bit limit, but he wanted to provide the strongest
security he could within that limitation.

	How should I have answered him?

         Vin McLellan + The Privacy Guild + <vin at shore.net>
      53 Nichols St., Chelsea, MA 02150 USA <617> 884-5548








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