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- From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Subject: Re: PGP - Legal?
- In-Reply-To: karn@servo.qualcomm.com (Phil Karn)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.204500.14840@nntp.hut.fi>
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- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- References: <1993Jan4.041714.1156@qualcomm.com> <9301041919.AA12056@chaos.intercon.com> <1993Jan5.030228.10817@netcom.com> <1993Jan5.074735.14802@qualcomm.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 20:45:00 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan5.074735.14802@qualcomm.com>, karn@servo (Phil Karn) writes:
- >Shamir is an Israeli, living in Israel.
-
- >controlled -- only actual implementations are. Therefore you're
- >missing the mark by talking about whether non-Americans make
- >significant contributions to the theory of cryptography. Even if only
- >Americans made them they'd still be available worldwide.
- >
- >You ought instead to ask the question whether there are any
- >non-Americans capable of turning an algorithm description into working
- >code. Evidently the US State Department doesn't think so and nor do
- >you, since you defend this interpretation so strongly.
-
- This discussion is silly in any case - it didn't matter whether
- Noriega was an U.S. citizen, it doesn't matter if the people in
- Somalia are U.S. citizens, it won't matter if the people in
- Bosnia-whatever are U.S. citizens, it didn't matter that Shamir was an
- Israeli citizen living in Israel when the patent secrecy order was
- issued on him (on second thoughts, I guess it did matter in this case
- since he isn't in jail now). Also, just saw on the news today George
- Bush saying that USA is the only superpower with the obligation to
- take care of all the world's problems, by military force if necessary
- of course. The military were shown as the background of him, so I
- guess I'll better go escape to Russia when they come and invade the
- Helsinki area because of nic.funet.fi distributing munitions the US
- government might not like.
-
- Followups directed out of sci.crypt.
-
- //Jyrki
-