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Re: eliminate AH -- unanimous

To: Dan.McDonald@Eng.Sun.COM (Dan McDonald)
Subject: Re: eliminate AH -- unanimous
From: Karl Fox <karl@Ascend.COM>
Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 13:54:38 -0700
Cc: wsimpson@greendragon.com (William Allen Simpson), ipsec@tis.com
In-Reply-To: <199705302045.NAA04850@kebe.eng.sun.com>
Organization: Ascend Communications
References: <5984.wsimpson@greendragon.com><199705302045.NAA04850@kebe.eng.sun.com>
Reply-To: Karl Fox <karl@Ascend.COM>
Sender: owner-ipsec@ex.tis.com

Dan McDonald writes:
> ESP, even if only used encryptionless is "encryption enabling" technology,
> and falls under close export-control scrutiny.  AH does not, and can be slid
> out the door with relative ease.

I have heard this now several times, and am puzzled by it.  We sell an
AH+ESP product, and had no problem at all getting export approval for
ESP with 40-bit DES keys.  All we had to do was make our product so
that export versions can't be retrofitted to support >40 bit
encryption.
-- 
Karl Fox, servant of God, employee of Ascend Communications
655 Metro Place South, Suite 370, Dublin, Ohio  43017   +1 614 760 4041

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eliminate AH -- unanimous

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Re: eliminate AH -- unanimous

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