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- From: gardner@convex.com (Steve Gardner)
- Subject: Re: RSA outside the US
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- Message-ID: <1992Oct11.234324.26733@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 23:43:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Oct9.233126.10429@uoft02.utoledo.edu> jsteiner@anwsun.phya.utoledo.edu (jason 'Think!' steiner) writes:
- >please correct me if i'm wrong, but in reading the FAQ my mind started
- >to boggle & i need to clarify this:
- >
- > 1. RSA is pretty much a standard in Europe.
- > 2. it is illegal to export RSA stuff from the US.
- >
- >now i've always thought the US government was a bit bass ackwards,
- >but this is just silly.
- Yeah, incredible isn't it! It seems most americans don't care
- how daffy (or evil!) their government is. We've got an enormous
- bureauracy devoted to fighting an "evil empire" which is now defunct,
- we've got fundamentalist nut cases determining what goes into high
- school biology texts and we have a War on Some Drugs that is quickly
- eroding what is left of the Bill of Rights. We've also got a bunch of
- cold war left overs in the NSA trying to protect us from the
- "evil empire" and in the process harming the US telecommunications
- industry. It's a sad horrible joke but you get blank looks from
- the man in the street when you mention it. Perhaps now that the
- economy has hit the skids and we are on the edge of another great
- depression people will start to look at who our real enemies are
- and see that they aren't foreign after all. . .
-
-
-
- smg
-