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- From: strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight)
- Subject: Re: PKP/RSA comments on PGP legality
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.063111.26607@netcom.com>
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- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 06:31:11 GMT
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- Bill Stewart argues that the IDEA algorithm isn't covered by the
- Munitions Act provisions. Though I hope he's right, I'm not so
- sure. I think the Munitions Act covers cryptographic methods.
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- Second, his contention that DES was published in the Federal Register
- isn't quite accurate. As I understand it, the details of the S-boxes
- were not (though they can, I suppose be gotten via decompiling or
- examining source code), yet without them one could not implement DES
- and thus they are an essential part of the algorithm, in Bill's terms.
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- Please understand that I'm not trying to argue in a partisan manner here,
- but to arrive at an understanding of what's so.
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- David
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