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Re: Verisign gets export approval




Adam Shostack wrote:
> 
>         Nope, you've now got thousands of upset customers who were
> using secure communications, and are now using cheesy exportable
> ciphers.  (Hopefully, you wrote CGI so you can quickly switch to using
> Stronghold. :)

It wouldn't help.  The problem is that your customers (using the export
client) who used to be able to connect using strong crypto now have to
use weak crypto.  It doesn't affect people using non-exportable clients.

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