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- From: sowa@netcom.com (Erik Sowa)
- Subject: Re: RSA Data Security Not All Bad
- In-Reply-To: strnlght@netcom.com's message of Thu, 17 Dec 1992 09:51:22 GMT
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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 21:38:25 GMT
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- >>>>> "David" == David Sternlight <strnlght@netcom.com> writes:
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- David> Lucio de Re asks if commercial products using RSA cannot be exported. That's
- David> right. The version of Lotus Notes that uses it is an example.
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- David> I guess companies think there's a big enough market without it. Given
- David> the notorious lack of ethics in some countries, leading to massive
- David> software piracy (Italy and Taiwan come immediately to mind), they
- David> probably aren't losing much anyway.
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- Then the export restriction isn't protecting much, either.
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- Erik Sowa (sowa@netcom.com)
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