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Foil 21 Export Restrictions on Cryptography

From Remarks on Java and Internet Security Web Certificate CPS616 Enhancement -- Summer 1997 . by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 The US government has established restrictions on the "quality" of encryption software that can be exported
2 This actually translates into general restrictions on security quality as vendors do not want two types of software -- one domestic and one foreign!
3 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
  • However the bad guys might to do this to break into Fort Knox but wouldn't bother for your credit card number!
4 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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