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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... :)




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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