Export-level Encryption Proves Insufficient

rossjudson writes: "The Independent is running an article about the shoe bomber terrorist. The interesting bit for Slashdot readers is at the bottom -- apparently the 40-bit encryption in the export version of Windows 2000 was cracked by a set of computers using a brute force method. So let's confront the question: Should the US prohibit the export of high-encryption software? Here is a case where the default values (40 bit) clearly helped recover valuable information from a system." There's another article in New Scientist focusing on the encryption issue.

Comments

why usa?

[{X-Frog}]

why it's always to usa to restrict something?
They think they are the king of the world, but why should they decide for other country what to do?
that's the same for encryption, US should control everything, every bits, every communication, every philosophies?
damn!

sorry, but I just hate US way of thinking and Bush administration.

I lives in Canada and we are becoming a state of the US Empire, I just soooo hate and disapprove this, I wanna go somewhere else!

Re:why usa?

[Treeluvinhippy]

I'm sure W stays up late everynight watching football, choking on pretzels and thinking of new ways to dominate Canada. Plze.