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RE: VPN bakeoff in October & export licensing.
I thought the US has relaxed the export stuff to allow DES56-bit now - since
that's
the extent of what we'll be testing, maybe we don't have a problem?
In any case, it is VERY unlikely we'll be fixing core crypto code - it will
be fixes to
L2TP and IPSEC signally code if anything so no crypto-code fixes will be
exported
from the US. The images we build in the UK will contain crypto-code, but
that's import.
We're going to check with the UK export bods as well.
Cheers, Steve.
-----Original Message-----
From: Henry Spencer [mailto:henry@spsystems.net]
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 1998 9:46 PM
To: Mark Gillott
Cc: IP Security List
Subject: Re: VPN bakeoff in October & export licensing.
> But what about the bakeoff? Does anyone have a view on what the NSA would
> say if we were to dial home (to the UK), fixed some bug or other and then
> copied a new image back to the workshop for further testing?
Beware: doing the bug fix on a UK machine from within the US exports the
bug fix, i.e. it exports crypto code! Or at the very least, it exports
technical advice on encryption. Probably not a good idea...
> What about when we come to go home. Presumably we have remove all our test
> images from laptops/routers before we leave the US?
Correct.
Henry Spencer
henry@spsystems.net
(henry@zoo.toronto.edu)
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