Hello. Russian government accepted a changes in laws about licensing cryptographic algorithms and devices. The statement in Russian language: http://www.garant.ru/hotlaw/doc/109485.htm
Essential in English: You do not need to license staff which uses: * symmetric ciphers with key length less 56 bits; * assymetric ciphers with key length less 128 bits based on factoring or discrete logarithms; The origin news from: http://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=13683 (in russian as well) -- Best regards. Gleb Pakharenko. http://gpaharenko.livejournal.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]