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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!tnl!norstar
- From: norstar@tnl.com (Daniel Ray)
- Subject: Re: PKP/RSA comments on PGP legality
- Organization: The Northern Lights
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 11:26:10 GMT
- Message-ID: <BzCnro.L2G@tnl.com>
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- > ...
- > Consequently, I for one am not afraid to stand up and be counted as
- >a supporter of the fine work of the PGP development team, and especially
- >of Phil Zimmermann, who got the ball rolling with version 1.0. The
- >program currently has far more users and admirers than any other
- >public-key encryption system, and for good reason. It is an elegant
- >piece of work, made more elegant with each revision. Nor am I afraid to
- >put myself on record as a principled opponent of the RSA patent (and of
- >algorithm/software patents generally), and as an opponent of the
- >regulation by the government of cryptographic import/export/use in any
- >form. If my doing so creates any legal exposure for me, then that is a
- >risk I am prepared to take for the sake of the proverbial `eternal
- >vigilance.' If it actually ends up costing me or other like-minded
- >American citizens, then, in my view, this country's Constitution will
- >have suffered yet another humiliating debasement.
- >
- > Hugh Miller
-
- I agree with Hugh Miller. Indeed, what a bunch of wimps some of you are!
- Don't you see...if they divide us they've got us? PGP is strongest in big
- numbers!
-
- And even if the number is down to one, the principle is the same! The price
- of freedom is sometimes very dear, but, as an American, I am willing to
- attempt to preserve the rapidly diminishing set of individual protections
- we still have left. PGP is one of the most important tools to assist in
- this that has come along in a long time. C'mon people! Show your *heart*...
-
- dan ray
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