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- Path: sparky!uunet!anagld!sammy
- From: sammy@anagld.analytics.com (Sam Blackburn)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: Help : Encryption Algorithms
- Message-ID: <1591@anagld.analytics.com>
- Date: 23 Aug 92 01:14:22 GMT
- References: <ebolog.27@elaine.ee.und.ac.za> <1992Aug20.155927.25742@nb.rockwell.com> <1992Aug22.054746.13805@uwm.edu>
- Organization: Computer Sciences Corporation - Systems Engineering Division
- Lines: 20
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- markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Hunk) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Aug20.155927.25742@nb.rockwell.com> wade@nb.rockwell.com (Wade Guthrie) writes:
- >>
- >>PLEASE NOTE: It is likely ILLEGAL to export encryption/decryption algorithms
- >>from the U.S. to any other country (the original poster is from Africa).
-
- >That's tantamount to telling me I can't leave the country. Such a law, if it
- >actually existed, is not only laughably ridiculous, but is unenforceable and
- >in all likehood unconstitutional.
-
- >The day people get arrested for disseminating a branch of pure mathematics is
- >the day an oppressive government needs to be brought down.
-
- It is laughably ridiculous, unenforceable and TRUE! Look at international
- companies like IBM. They can't even use their OWN e-mail system overseas
- because it uses RSA public-key technology. Encryption software requires a
- munitions liscence to export it from the US. This ranks right up there with
- making certain parts of the electromagnetic spectrum ILLEGAL to look at (the
- cellular phone frequencies).
-