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- Subject: Re: PGP v. 2.1 Released
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- From: a_rubin@dsg4.dse.beckman.com (Arthur Rubin)
- Date: 18 Dec 92 18:01:15 GMT
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- In <MOORE.92Dec18095153@defmacro.cs.utah.edu> moore@cs.utah.edu (Tim Moore) writes:
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- >In article <a_rubin.724526808@dn66> a_rubin@dsg4.dse.beckman.com (Arthur Rubin) writes:
- > > 2) The legality of PGP is not being seriously debated. It's illegal.
- > [...]
- > It may have some code
- > "contaminated" with some RSA code, in violation of copyright and/or trade
- > secret.
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- >I have never seen this claim before. Could you elaborate? PKP
- >alleges that Zimmerman may have stolen ideas from MailSafe because he
- >had a copy in 1986, but that is extremely debatable (and Zimmerman
- >denies it.)
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- That's what I was referring to.
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