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Re: 2nd S/MIME BOF meeting minutes

1997-04-15 08:12:50
"F" == Frederik H Andersen <fha(_at_)dde(_dot_)dk> writes:

    F> What I find very difficult to understand is, why the
    F> technology: - which is the defacto standard...........
    F> allows almost arbitrarily strong crypto is not considered for
    F> the MUST technology?

Because IETF has a long tradition NOT to require a technology 
that is not FREELY AVAILABLE?

    F> Another thing, is it not true, assuming the technology is
    F> available, that nothing prevents a user in US and a user
    F> outside US to communicate using stong crypto ( e.g. 128 bit
    F> keys)?

Yes, this is true, to the best of my knowledge.

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