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- From: simsong@next.cambridge.ma.us (Simson L. Garfinkel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Encription in 3.0?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.141830.15497@next.cambridge.ma.us>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 14:18:30 GMT
- References: <16890@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
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- In article <16890@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> heberlei@cs.ucdavis.edu (Louis Todd
- Heberlei) writes:
- > > Did FEE encription make it into the 3.0 Mail.app?
- >
- > No.
- >
- > Due to restrictions on export of encryption software,
- > NeXT would not have been allowed to sell the software
- > outside the United States. Why the chose not to release
- > both an international version and a domestic version, I
- > don't know. [see fall issue of NeXTWORLD pg. 31]
- >
-
- Because that wouldn't work with NeXT's global strategy. Imagine if you someone
- had sent encrypted mail from your chicago office to your pittsburgh office, but
- you were in france. then you couldn't read it on your NeXT machine in france,
- because it wouldn't have the encryption software, even if you have NFS mounted
- your home directory from pittsburgh.
-
- Another problem is that, whenever you sent somebody mail, you would have to
- know what country they were in.
-
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-
- ................................................................simson
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