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Re: Commerce Undersecretary William Reinsch defends the government's encryption policy
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- Subject: Re: Commerce Undersecretary William Reinsch defends the government's encryption policy
- From: HyperReal-Anon <[email protected]>
- Date: 15 Oct 1998 17:50:05 -0000
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[email protected] wrote:
>
> http://www.infosecuritymag.com/sept/q%26a.htm
> Q & A WITH WILLIAM REINSCH
>
> Reinsch: What the government has also said is that if it's a
> key-recovery product, it can be exported with any bit length
> without constraint. And that's what we would prefer to focus
> on -- to tell people, if you're product has recovery features,
> bit length doesn't matter.
Ah, something we can finally agree upon:
"if your product has recovery features, bit length doesn't matter"
(it's insecure).