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bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de writes:
>"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...

I've ben told that PKWare did get a license or exception for PKZIP but
it still cannot be exported to Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, the
police or military of South Africa, Syria and Vietnam. 

This may mean that FTP sites in the USA and Canada will not be able
to offer the non-export version because there is a chance that persons
on the "restricted list" shown above could access the file.

Keith
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