Re: 128-bit CAST and US export controls

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From: RJ Atkinson (rja@extremenetworks.com)
Date: 03/27/02-08:46:19 AM Z 

Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 09:46:19 -0500
Subject: Re: 128-bit CAST and US export controls
From: RJ Atkinson <rja@extremenetworks.com>
Message-Id: <660C5552-4191-11D6-A2F1-00039357A82A@extremenetworks.com>

On Tuesday, March 26, 2002, at 04:38 , Ron Hoffman wrote:

> The CAST5-CBC encryption algorithm uses 128-bit keys and thus is subject
> to US export controls.

IETF policy on standards is to ignore any national restrictions
(for any country), because the IETF operates globally.  So from
a standards perspective, any US export controls are irrelevant
to the standards making process.  Of course particular implementations
might have to make implementation choices based on their own
circumstances, but that ought not be driving the IETF specs.

IMHO,

Ran

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