http://www.mod.gov.il/modh1/encryption/index.html

Orr Dunkelman wrote:

>A) It is Tzav Hatzofen (it is a Tzav which Minsiter of Diffence (Sar
>Habitachun) is authorized to change.
>B) It was changed several yearsr ago, and you can use encryption as much
>as you like (I think up to 128-bit secret key). Exporting is also easier
>with less restrictions.
>
It was changed, but it does not say what you said it says.

Basically, you effectively can do what you want today, because there is 
a policy of giving permission to whoever asks for it. This, however, is 
not part of the order, but part of the policy of the current order 
implementors.

>C) No one ever was prosecuted becuase he/she encrypted material (AFAIK).
>
That's what I know as well.

>D) This system admin. can now restart the encryption in SSH, all cipher
>included in OpenSSH and SSH are ok but Tzav Hatzofen (AFAIK).
>
Wrong. That SEEMS to be the case for free means 
(http://www.mod.gov.il/modh1/encryption/tzav.htm#x0111), but the list 
(http://www.mod.gov.il/modh1/encryption/tzofend.htm) doesn't seem to 
include SSH. I will reserve what I said in that I have not read the 
entire list (they have a seperate PDF for each month in which a new tool 
was authorized, so you have to go over all of them to make sure a 
certain product is not listed).

>
>Disclaimer: I'm a cryptographer, not a lawyer.
>
So am I, but I give references.
           
                Shachar



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