NODE facba6b1Re: Notes from NIS&T Key Escrow Export conference.
"Peter Trei" <trei@process.com>Thu, 7 Sep 95 08:23:13 PDT
>The last issue in the session was that the length of the key, 64-bits,
>was defined in criteria #1. There was no discussion at the conference on
>this criteria. It seems that the NIS&T and NSA folks believe that this is a
>closed topic. The folks in the session did not agree. They felt that 64-bits
>was not enough.
I hope this gets to you before the conference is over. I would REALLY
like to hear the government response to the question:
"If keys are escrowed, what purpose does a 64 bit limit serve?"
Secondarily, I observe that this apparently precludes the use of OTP.
Peter Trei
ptrei@acm.org