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- From: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev)
- Subject: Re: pkz204c.exe is out, finally ...
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- Sender: news@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Mr. News)
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- Organization: Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg
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- Date: 8 Jan 93 16:15:10 GMT
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- "D. C. Sessions" <dcs@witsend.tnet.com> writes:
-
- > # Due to the restrictions on the exporting of encryption technology, this
- > # program cannot be legally offered by any FTP site in the USA or Canada
- > # that can be accessed from other countries,
- > #
- > # We'll have to wait for an "Export Version", which will hopefully be
- > # supplied by PKWare as they did for PKZ110.
-
- > Perhaps PKWare should subcontract the encryption code to one
- > of the software shops in the xUSSR, Korea, Japan, India, etc.
- > That would get them around the US restrictions. It's what
- > other companies (such as IBM) are doing, and the encryption
- > algorithms are well-known everywhere.
-
- Actually, I've heard that PKWare has got an export license for their
- program. Seems that NSA considers its encryption easy enough to
- break... :-) As a side note, this means that there will be no problems
- to make it available on SImtel20...
-
- Regards,
- Vesselin
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