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RE: Repost of CompuServe Position on Passphrases

From: Dan Simon <dansimon@microsoft.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 10:58:21 -0700
Message-ID: <c=US%a=_%p=msft%l=RED-92-MSG-960723175821Z-3795@tide19.microsoft.com>
To: "'John Macko'" <jmacko@nisa.compuserve.com>, "'Tom Weinstein'" <tomw@netscape.com>
Cc: "'ietf-tls@w3.org'" <ietf-tls@w3.org> 
>From: 	Tom Weinstein[SMTP:tomw@netscape.com]
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>I don't think we should be burdening an international standard with
>idiosyncrasies imposed by brain-damaged US regulations that will
>hopefully be repealed in the near future.
>
A rousing sentiment, to be sure.  Perhaps Tom would also like to propose
expunging those "brain-damaged" EXPORT cipher suites from TLS?  Or can I
assume that we all (or the rest of us, at least) recognize the
regrettable need for the standard to deal with unpalatable legal
realities?


				Daniel Simon
				Cryptographer, Microsoft Corp.
				dansimon@microsoft.com

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