On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > The problem with SHA-1 is that it is a U.S. Federal Information Processing > Standard, and I don't trust that the U.S. government will not place export > restrictions on it. I'm also wary of U.S. FIPS for the same reason I'm wary > about DES - various spy agencies have to approve the standard, and one wonders > if they know something we don't. >
However, you should know, that all these things are used for items the govt. wants to keep secure. It wouldn't be too secure if their was a backdoor. Also, didn't IBM develop DES, not the govt. Shaya -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .