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- From: strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight)
- Subject: Re: RSAREF and RIPEM now available via anonymous FTP
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.235739.14767@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1993Jan7.095453.29864@netcom.com> <1993Jan7.230612.12564@netcom.com> <322@ininx.UUCP>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 23:57:39 GMT
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- In response to John Kreznar:
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- [personal material omitted]
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- "his nation's arbitrary interference into the peaceful activities of
- unaffiliated third parties, such as non- nationals who would trade in
- encryption software?"
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- The U.S. is sovereign in its own territory and may make whatever laws
- it wishes with respect to the activities of non-nationals within our
- borders, regardless of where the non-national is physically located.
- Non-nationals who live outside the U.S. but have accounts in U.S.
- banks inside the U.S. must, for example, obey our banking regulations.
- Electronic transmission of materials from or to the U.S. is covered
- under this notion. Such things as PGP 1.0 finding its way out of the
- country, or PGP 2.x finding its way in do cross our sovereign borders.
- Those are simple facts of physics.
-
- Thus non-nationals who would trade in encryption software may freely
- do so outside the U.S. within their own laws, but when it comes to
- importing or exporting anything, to quote the old aphorism about
- smoking, "Your right to smoke ends where my nose begins."
-
- David
- --
- David Sternlight
- RIPEM Public Key on server -- Consider it an envelope for your e-mail
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