On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 08:30:34AM -0600, Joe Moore wrote: > Jeff Licquia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (quoting the relevant law) > > There is a definitions section, in which we find: > > > > ----- > > "cryptography product" means any product that makes use of > > cryptographic techniques and is used by a sender or recipient of data > > messages for the purposes of ensuring-- > > (a) that such data can be accessed only by relevant persons; > > (b) the authenticity of the data; > > (c) the integrity of the data; or > > (d) that the source of the data can be correctly ascertained; > > Wouldn't TCP and UDP checksum functions fall into "ensuring the integrity of > the data"?
I don't think those checksums use "cryptographic techniques", but SYN cookies might fall under this definition. Also, using a strong pseudorandom algorithm for generating TCP sequence numbers is a cryptographic technique. Richard Braakman
