rapala

Hi all

Having a slight argument over VPN A work mate is saying that your have to register 3DES VPN key within certain countries i.e US if you want to use that level of VPN if the tunnel originates or terminates in that country? Is this true? If so is there a governing body on where you go to register the keys? cos he says Cisco provides them as standard and he couldn't back up his claim that you need to register the key. As far as I know you can make up any 3DES you want?

Cheers

what would scooby do

bo0llox - is what I say - I use trip des even in France where it is MEANT to be illegal..

Jeff Wiltshire

The only country which restricts the key size is France (as far as I know). France is restricted to 40-Bit.

Everywhere else is now unrestricted.

Jeff

rapala

Cheers guys

Come monday I will be sipping a free pint of beer at lunch

IWatkins

I may be out of date, but I thought it was a big no-no to use any form of encryption on data traffic in China ?

Cheers

Ian

Jeff Wiltshire

And , thinking about it, it's illegal to use US sourced encryption in Iraq, North Korea etc etc

rapala

Thats what I have been saying to him all afternoon bollocks

He says they cant stop you using any key but for commercial or providing customer solutions it best you register the key if you want to be legit

[Edited by rapala - 2/7/2003 6:33:32 PM]