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> I put the antecedent to this message on CapMac's internet SIG and also on our
> DevSig in mid-April.  The next day there was two articles in the Statesman's
> TechMonday, and neither of them metioned an arrest, although one story stated
> that Zimmermann was a subject of a grand jury investigation.  After several
> inquiries to the Statesman, the editor and I concluded that the NPR story most
> likely was wrong.
> 
> I would be interested in any information concerning this subject.  I know that
> the Feds want to bottle up free exchange of information, and in light of
> Oklahoma City, they might succeed.  But Zimmermann's "offense" was giving away
> software that he himself had developed.  And as far as public key/private key
> encryption, I have a Scientific American article dated August 1979 that covers
> the subject well enough that 10% - 15% of the developers in CapMac could
> re-engineer PGP.  There are probably several hundred thousand others
> nationwide with similar abilities.  Moreover, the bookstores have entire
> shelves devoted to the subject.  The fact is that the encryption genie is out
> of the bottle and cannot be put back.  This was the result of the lawful and
> proper activities of many people, and  singling out one or two individuals for
> official wrath is to me immoral.
> 
> 
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> Capitol Macintosh User Group, Austin, TX, USA (512) 440-0025, 4 lines

If Phil is charged, it will probably be for munitions violations. What
the grand jury has investigated is a charge that Phil exported PGP, an
encryption product, outside the U.S.  Encryption products are classed as
munitions, so this can be considered an offense, at least if you do it 
without a license.

Phil says that, though he created the product, others transported it
outside the U.S.

This grand jury thing has been dragging on for some time. I've never 
heard that they've returned an indictment (but I wouldn't necessarily know).

thx
jonl
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