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Re: RC5 challange - where are you people?



In message <Pine.SUN.3.96-heb-2.07.970628020245.7151F-100000@actcom.co.il> you 
write:
|
|On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Amos Shapira wrote:
|
|> For those who wonder what's the point in all this - these
|> challanges are aimed at showing the U.S. government (and other
|> governments?) that their export restrictions allow only breakable
|> (and therefore useless) encryption technology to be used on the
|> Internet.
|
|you might want to check out micr0$oft's home page - they wrote that they
|got approval of the U.S agency dealing with these matters, to export their
|128bit-long keys software to the rest of the world in their internet
|explorer - a very peculear phenomena...

The first time I heard about this (that 128 bits export is allowed)
was when someone on the RC5 challange mailing list pointed the members
to the following page:

http://browserwatch.internet.com/news/story/multi43.html

So there is still some way to go in order to let you use secure
communications.

Besides, watch distributed.net anyway - they intend to keep on
coordinating and pointing to other distributed efforts like large
prime numbers etc (their V2 clients are another step towards a
"universal distributed computation clients")

--Amos

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