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- From: wcs@anchor.ho.att.com (Bill Stewart +1-908-949-0705)
- Subject: Re: PKP/RSA comments on PGP legality
- Organization: Here, beside the rising tide
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 00:28:05 GMT
- Message-ID: <WCS.92Dec13192805@rainier.ATT.COM>
- In-Reply-To: strnlght@netcom.com's message of Sun, 13 Dec 1992 19:21:49 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec13.192149.8211@netcom.com> strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
- My latest state of understanding (but I'm open to even more) is that
- DES was published. More than that, it's that there's a footnoted
- exemption in the Export List (Commerce Dept.? State Dept.?) for
- technological exports which have been published in scholarly
- journals (the explanation I was given has something to do with
- the conflict between the Munitions Act and the First Amendment).
-
- It's also been claimed by one correspondent that a)IDEA has been
- published and b)the above footnote exemption would mean that
- the IDEA component of PGP wouldn't provide a basis for proceeding
- against PGP under the Munitions Act.
-
- If I'm the correcpondent you mean, I *didn't* say that the IDEA
- component of PGP wouldn't provide a basis for government action against it -
- I said there's a difference between algorithms
- (which the government doesn't seem to currently class as munitions)
- and *implementations* of algorithms (which unfortunately they do),
- and that if we wanted a legal-for-use-in-USA version of PGP,
- we could use the IDEA algorithm but we'd have to implement it here.
- (And, of course, we'd have to find out if the Swiss patent owners
- have a patent in the US or would be nice enough to let us use it free.)
-
-
- .... so we'll need to find a paper journal article, or have it posted
- in alt.journals.scholarly.obscure from some site in Finland .... :-)
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