Re: [VANILLA-LIST:2764] www.netrek.org down for Y2K upgrades

[Dave Ahn <ahn@vec.wfubmc.edu>]

On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 04:27:59PM -0800, Carlos Y. Villalpando wrote:
> Quoting Dave Ahn <ahn@vec.wfubmc.edu>:
> > 
> > All this talk of authentication begs the question, do we want to revisit
> > the topic of the current RSA scheme?
> 
> Maybe we should table this for a week and let everybody come back from
> Holiday Vacations and/or Y2K babysitting.

Sounds good.

Incidentally, this publicity is causing some serious hits on www.netrek.org.
The log files are increasing in size dramatically, far faster than in the
past.  Very good news.

> And does anybody know what will happen to res-rsa when the RSA patent
> runs out in a couple of years, coupled with the on-again-off-again
> easeing of ITAR restrictions on the pidly 56bit RSA encryption?

With the RSA patent expiring, we can ditch the U.S. version of the code
and simply download from the Euro site.  As for the easing of ITAR
restrictions, that was on 56bit symmetric key encryption I believe.
I am not sure about the impact on public key cryptography such as RSA.
I'll have to revisit the Crypto Law Survey after the New Year.  I do
know that RSA Securities just recently were granted unrestricted export of
their PGP products to specific countries.  That may or may not affect us.

Dave
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