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Re: Triple-DES controlled?




Rich Salz writes:
> >I have not heard of export licenses being granted for 3DES.
> 
> Didn't the ANSI financial committee just adopt 3DES (over NSA
> objections)?

Yes.

> Presumably they consider the export situation solved/solvable.

There is the trivial solution of buying outside the US. The hardware
is actually better these days as the Germans and others have a
worldwide market and the economies that brings.

.pm