The US government has established restrictions on the "quality" of encryption software that can be exported
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This actually translates into general restrictions on security quality as vendors do not want two types of software -- one domestic and one foreign!
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Note one can break "low quality" encryption e.g. RSA155 (best technology using 512 binary bits) would take 10,000 PC's a few months to break
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However the bad guys might to do this to break into Fort Knox but wouldn't bother for your credit card number!
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Sun ingeniously released latest software using cryptography produced entirely outside the USA and so again the government is attempting something that is bound to fail!
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