🚀 go-pugleaf

I wish to issue a challenge to hackers on both sides of the red white & blue
curtain:

WHEREAS, we'uns can apparently only use RIPEM or such properly licensed RSA
software *legally*, AND

... the technical specs of a RIPEM compatible system are well-enough
known "out there" (outside the US) or in any event exportable, which the 
actual software is not), AND

... PGP has the ingredients for the RSA portion, and doubtless somewhere
there is a DES implementation already outside US Export Restrictions,

How about someone "out there" making a RIPEM-compatible system  rather in
the spirit of PGP, so we can get about exchanging our private mail, rather
than grousing about the legality of PGP?  I shall be happy to send U.S. $20
in support of this effort, and I encourage Messrs. Sternlight, Ellison, Boucher,
and all others in this brouhaha to do the same once a volunteer comes forth.

It's one thing to burn down the outhouse, and another to install plumbing...

-- 
Eric Weaver  Sony AVTC  677 River Oaks Pkwy, MS 35  SJ CA 95134  408 944-4904
& Chief Engineer, KFJC 89.7 Foothill College, Los Altos Hills CA 94022
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Eric Weaver  Sony AVTC  677 River Oaks Pkwy, MS 35  SJ CA 95134  408 944-4904
& Chief Engineer, KFJC 89.7 Foothill College, Los Altos Hills CA 94022