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- From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt,alt.security.pgp
- Subject: Re: RIPEM vs. PGP
- Message-ID: <9qmXVB18w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 15:12:19 GMT
- References: <1992Dec16.115438@kuttner.sfc.sony.com>
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- Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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- weaver@kuttner.sfc.sony.com (Eric Weaver) writes:
- > How about someone "out there" making a RIPEM-compatible system rather in
- > the spirit of PGP, so we can get about exchanging our private mail, rather
- > than grousing about the legality of PGP?
-
- We have a perfectly legal public-key cryptosystem. PGP.
-
- If you have some problem with that because of your laws, then I'm
- afraid it's up to you to do something about it.
-
- > I shall be happy to send U.S. $20
- > in support of this effort, and I encourage Messrs. Sternlight, Ellison, Bouch
- > and all others in this brouhaha to do the same once a volunteer comes forth.
-
- Well, if you want to pay us to re-implement cryptographic software,
- then that's a different matter. Long live US export restrictions!
- :-)
-
-
- mathew
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