Re: Encription in 3.0?

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From: Simson L. Garfinkel
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 14:18

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In article <16890@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> heberlei@cs.ucdavis.edu (Louis Todd  
Heberlei) writes:
> > 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]
> 

Because that wouldn't work with NeXT's global strategy.  Imagine if you someone  
had sent encrypted mail from your chicago office to your pittsburgh office, but  
you were in france.  then you couldn't read it on your NeXT machine in france,  
because it wouldn't have the encryption software, even if you have NFS mounted  
your home directory from pittsburgh.

Another problem is that, whenever you sent somebody mail, you would have to  
know what country they were in.

-- 

................................................................simson

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