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"D. C. Sessions" <dcs@witsend.tnet.com> writes:

> # Due to the restrictions on the exporting of encryption technology, this
> # program cannot be legally offered by any FTP site in the USA or Canada
> # that can be accessed from other countries,
> # 
> # We'll have to wait for an "Export Version", which will hopefully be
> # supplied by PKWare as they did for PKZ110. 

>   Perhaps PKWare should subcontract the encryption code to one
>   of the software shops in the xUSSR, Korea, Japan, India, etc.
>   That would get them around the US restrictions.  It's what
>   other companies (such as IBM) are doing, and the encryption
>   algorithms are well-known everywhere.

Actually, I've heard that PKWare has got an export license for their
program. Seems that NSA considers its encryption easy enough to
break... :-) As a side note, this means that there will be no problems
to make it available on SImtel20...

Regards,
Vesselin
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