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- From: w8sdz@tacom-emh1.army.mil (Keith Petersen)
- Subject: Re: pkz204c.exe is out, finally ...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.021514.17149@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
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- Organization: The SIMTEL20 Archives
- References: <1993Jan6.053553.9663@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <765351d3871461t246@witsend.uucp> <bontchev.726509710@fbihh>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 02:15:14 GMT
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- bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de writes:
- >"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...
-
- I've ben told that PKWare did get a license or exception for PKZIP but
- it still cannot be exported to Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, the
- police or military of South Africa, Syria and Vietnam.
-
- This may mean that FTP sites in the USA and Canada will not be able
- to offer the non-export version because there is a chance that persons
- on the "restricted list" shown above could access the file.
-
- Keith
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- Keith Petersen
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