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Re: Commerce Undersecretary William Reinsch defends the government's encryption policy




[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).