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In article <1992Nov16.021449.11775@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> gbrown@raven.ctr.columbia.edu (Glenn Brown) writes:
>> I just use ForYourEyesOnly that came as a 2.0 Demo app...  
>..
>> it's legal to use in the US (whereas PGP
>> (Pretty Good Privacy) is very ILLEGAL in the US).
>..
>> send me some encrypted mail and piss the NSA off...  :-)  I think I'll
>> put it in my .sig... hehe
>
>If PGP is illegal, it must be too good for the NSA.
>FYEO is not illegal 
>	=> The NSA must know how to break it
>	=> Sending you FYEO mail wouldn't piss off the NSA.
>
>..Just some idle speculation.

OK, I just talked to an attorney.  It's not criminally illegal.  No
encryption is criminally illegal to use in the US.  Exporting it is a
different matter.  Using PGP violaties the patent owned by Public Key
Partners for the algorithm used by PGP.  While criminal charges will
not be held against you for using PGP, RSA can file a civil suit
against you for damages.


andrew
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