Wassenaar summary (and a funny new loophole)

Anonymous nobody at replay.com
Thu Dec 10 15:06:27 PST 1998


Are items freely exportable between countrys that are party to this agreement?

>Systems that do not meet those conditions are export-controlled if they
>use symmetric encryption with more than 56 bit keys, algorithms based
>on factorization or on logarithms in finite fields with more than 512
>bit keys (e.g. RSA, DH) or on discrete logarithms in other groups (such
>as elliptic curves) with more than 112 bits. They may be exported for
>personal use.






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