Re: Help : Encryption Algorithms

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From: Sam Blackburn
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 01:14

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markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Hunk) writes:

>In article <1992Aug20.155927.25742@nb.rockwell.com> wade@nb.rockwell.com (Wade Guthrie) writes:
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>>PLEASE NOTE:  It is likely ILLEGAL to export encryption/decryption algorithms
>>from the U.S. to any other country (the original poster is from Africa).

>That's tantamount to telling me I can't leave the country.  Such a law, if it
>actually existed, is not only laughably ridiculous, but is unenforceable and
>in all likehood unconstitutional.

>The day people get arrested for disseminating a branch of pure mathematics is
>the day an oppressive government needs to be brought down.

It is laughably ridiculous, unenforceable and TRUE!  Look at international
companies like IBM.  They can't even use their OWN e-mail system overseas
because it uses RSA public-key technology.  Encryption software requires a
munitions liscence to export it from the US.  This ranks right up there with
making certain parts of the electromagnetic spectrum ILLEGAL to look at (the
cellular phone frequencies).

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Subject: Re: Help : Encryption Algorithms
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