🚀 go-pugleaf

Craig Dewick wrote:
> 
> The source to PGP version 2.63i is freely available on the net at numerous
> FTP and WWW sites (such as my server machine), however now we have a
> completely new version (5.x) but you've got to *pay* for it, and there
> appears to be no way to buy PGP 5.x for Unix unless you're either using a US
> or Canadian domain, or you're a US or Canadian citizen.

A freeware version of PGP 5.0 is available both from the PGP
server at MIT and from the international PGP web page (see
below).

> Why can't people get access to PGP 5.x source for Unix (regardless of where
> they are)? To hell with the US government's export laws - encryption
> products are there for everyone to use, not just for governments to
> intimidate us with.

It's easy to take that attitude when you're not the
one who gets sued/harrassed/investigated for violation
of US ITAR regulations.

PGP, Inc. chose to release the sources for PGP 5.0 as an
OCR-scannable book.  This is because it's already been
established in US courts that books containing crypto
software published in this way can be legally exported
from the US.  At least one copy of the PGP source book
made its way to Norway, where Stale Schumacher and his
cohorts have been scanning it in and proofreading it.
They have released the UNIX version of PGP 5.0 in source
form.  See their web page at:

    http://www.ifi.uio.no/pgp/

--PSW