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> Did FEE encription make it into the 3.0 Mail.app?

No.

Due to restrictions on export of encryption software,
NeXT would not have been allowed to sell the software
outside the United States.  Why the chose not to release
both an international version and a domestic version, I
don't know. [see fall issue of NeXTWORLD pg. 31]

Below is another hypothesis.  Does anyone have any idea
if there is any truth behind this?

I believe FEE is a public key system (if it isn't, please
ignore the rest of this message, and I apologize for the
bandwidth).  If it is, there
may be some patent problems as well.  Public Key Partners
(or something like that, a sister company to RSA Inc) claims
to hold the patent rights to public key encryption (actually
Stanford owns the patent, but PKP has licensed it).  PKP is
trying to stop the National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST) from making a public key signature
alg., DSS, a national standard.

So... if FEE is based on public and private keys, PKP might
be able to force NeXT to pay for the use of it.

Any ideas if this might be the case?

Todd