Re: US relaxes crypto restrictions?

Magnus Ahltorp (map@stacken.kth.se)
12 Jan 1999 14:13:01 +0100


> Is anybody aware of the exact nature of the policy change? What about
> hooks for stronger crypto? If we're lucky, this means that the core
> of the international kernel patch including DES could be distributed
> together with the kernel. This could be a great step forward for the
> security of the Internet.

DES is lousy security. 3DES is probably good.

/Magnus
map@stacken.kth.se

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