- From: Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 09:36:42 -0700
- To: Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se>, discuss@apps.ietf.org
At 11:12 AM 7/29/1999 +0200, Jacob Palme wrote: >We might develop solutions which are both technially sound and >acceptable to the export control people. For example, we might use >different algorithms for encryption of content, than for the >encryption used in identification and authorization services. The >export control people may be willing to allow longer key length for >identification and authorization than for content encryption. ...or they might not. The security folks have gotten used to relying on one part of a government saying "you can do that" but then having another part say "you can't do that". And, remember, we'd have to get buy-in from *all* governments, or at least all the ones we thought were significant. I think trying to keep the security folks in all governments happy is a classic rathole. --Paul Hoffman, Director --Internet Mail Consortium
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