VPN-1 FWZ

John Fulmer john.d.fulmer at MAIL.SPRINT.COM
Mon Jan 24 14:30:36 EST 2000


rodney at TILLERMAN.TO wrote:

> FWZ is a proprietary algorithm/scheme.  As such, it's use is
> severely frowned upon by the crypto/security plumbing community.
> It's not published, which means there's no peer review.
>

Also, it has always been exportable (aka 'approved' by the NSA)
from the US with no restrictions, which should give you some idea
as to it's relative crypto strength...

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