Feds OK 128-bit crypto amid protests
Timothy N. Hill
tnh at ACM.ORG
Fri Feb 14 15:56:30 PST 1997
At 19:14 -0500 97-02-13, Bradley Dunn wrote:
>See:
>http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,7925,00.html
>for details.
Thanks for the pointer.
Note that, unlike the previous three recipients of crypto export licenses,
Open Market did not enable government access to keys. Instead they went
through the "expensive ... exercise" of convincing "government officials
that the product could not be used to encrypt anything but specific
financial numbers."
- Tim
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