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- From: ahabig@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (Alec Habig)
- Subject: Re: BRONCO: Is now RSA.
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- References: <1992Nov17.202307@cs.bham.ac.uk> <BxxI0t.Ap5.2@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 15:58:57 GMT
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- In article <BxxI0t.Ap5.2@cs.cmu.edu> hill@norman.vi.ri.cmu.edu writes:
- >
- >How many international(non-canadian) players actually play in the US? I
- >know if one or two...that's about all that I know of. I agree that its a
- >hose to non-US players...but a new scheme was needed. No one really
- >complained initially, now its kind of late to tell people not to do it.
- >Perhaps more thought should be given to this subject...
-
- I play in the US on a regular basis. The reason that I didn't speak up before
- was that I was mistaken about what was secure. I thought that what could not
- be exported was the RSA code that one would need to bless one's own
- binaries/servers. This would not be so annoying, as few in Europe have the
- current blessing scheme anyway. I was not aware that the _binaries_ would be
- illegal to export.
-
- I know of a number of other European based players who play(ed) on US servers.
- The time zone problem haunts us here - we don't play during 'prime' hours, and
- so are mostly unknown.
-
- Alec
- (Entropy)
-
- PS - the RSA stuff does not affect Canadian players at all (to the best of my
- knowledge). Canada is the one place that it _is_ legal to export RSA to.
-