DES export regulations. And what to do about it!

[Amanda Walker]

In article <1991Jan5.022309.19716 at NCoast.ORG>
allbery at ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes:
>That isn't the intent.  Despite the fact that it's all for nought, the U.S.
>government is worried about hostile foreign powers violating *its own* privacy
>by decrypting its DES-encypted data.

Not so, as I understand.  DES is only approved for unclassified data.  For
any kind of classified communication, other (non-public) encryption methods
are used.
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