What is an export cipher

[Jagannadha Bhattu]

Can you let me know what is an export cipher.

Thanks
JB
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[Dr. Stephen Henson]

On Mon, Jul 04, 2005, Jagannadha Bhattu wrote:

> Can you let me know what is an export cipher.
>

If you mean "export ciphersuite"...

Its a legacy thing which complied with the old US export regulations. It would
effectively (*) have a much smaller key length and might have other
restrictions applied too.

* By "effectively" I mean that the key length might be the same as a
non-export cipher (for example 128 bits) but some might be send in plain text
or the amount of keying material used to derive it would be of a much smaller
length.

Steve.
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