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Although I was very disappointed by and disapprove of most of the US
administration's Feb 4th 1994 "Big Brother" announcements, they did
say they plan to legalize temporary export of encryption for personal
use.
Donald
From: Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>
To: kent@BBN.COM
Cc: pmetzger@lehman.com, iab-retreat@ISI.EDU, mobile-ip@ossi.com,
ipsec@ans.net
In-Reply-To: <199402282206.AA06971@venera.isi.edu> (message from Steve Kent on Mon, 28 Feb 94 17:02:49
-0500)
>...
>
>My original point remains: bulk encryption is often much easier to
>deploy, and gives considerably more "bang for the buck", than
>end-to-end authentication. It seems pretty clear to me that had
>encrypted IP tunnels been in widespread use, the Internet's recent
>passive monitoring attacks would have been much less successful.
>
>Your other comment about Kerberos with authentication being okay for
>export also misses the point. Would you like to come and install
>authentication-only Kerberos on *all* of my company's computers so I
>can access them securely from overseas without having to violate ITAR
>by carrying my encrypted IP tunnel software out of the US?
>
>Phil
Donald