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To: QwikSand who wrote (19395)	9/6/1999 6:24:00 PM
From: John Mireley	Respond to of 64865

Sun, Elvis, no he's not in Kalamazoo, and the NSA. sunsite.kren.nm.kr "Under U.S. law, Commerce Department approval is required for U.S. companies to export anything stronger than 40-bit encryption. But Sun is importing and "not exporting technology," according to Humphrey Polanen, general manager of Sun's Network Security Products Group, and "current regulations do not address imports. In fact," he adds, "there are no plans to regulate them [imports]." By licensing the Elvis+ software, Sun customers will now be able to buy the same 128-bit encryption software in, for example, Germany as they do in the U.S. "