A colleague offered the following comment on the Verisign press release forwarded with their permission. > This appears to be a very fast implementation of the > Administration's new crypto export policy, particularly with > respect to the sales to online merchants, health care and > insurance organizations. Banks and overseas subsidiaries of > US firms already could get these approvals, at least on a > per-sale basis. > > One interesting aspect of this news is that online merchants > are a rapidly proliferating, generally small business and > uncontrolled sort of market, quite unlike corporate > subsidiaries, banks, insurers and medical firms (who are much > more heavily regulated). If sales to anyone claiming to be a > web merchant are now decontrolled for 128-bit encryption, the > cat and the bag are not even in the same country anymore.
