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Re: ITAR vs. Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange?
> However, is Diffie-Hellman exportable? After all, it's not crypto,
> it's *just* key exchange, and people can plug in their own triple-DES
> from the usual sources. It looks to me like it's probably legal,
> though if you were to then transmit the password by XORing with the login
> key or some such probably-unsafe behaviour it might not be.
I think the export restrictions refer to "secret messaging". DH
creates a shared secret. I doubt it can be exported.
brad