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Re:The Internet Is Being Protected By Two Guys Named Steve by trevelyan on Monday April 28, 2014 @08:14AM (#7659399)
Yeah. I seem to remember the limit being 64-bit at the time, although maybe it was only 56-bit. Netscape used to have different download links for "American" and "International" users and put up a stern warning on the US link saying that international users couldn't grab it.

So, of course, everyone just downloaded the American edition... :)

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Re:The Internet Is Being Protected By Two Guys Named Steve by pdw on Monday April 28, 2014 @08:44AM (#7659501)
The limit was 40 bit. DES was 56 bit and "international" implementations zeroed out 16 bits of the key to make it exportable.
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