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Re: PKP/RSA comments on PGP legality

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From: David Sternlight
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 00:23
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Tim Moore asks a lot of definitional questions about the Munitions
Act. He should read the entire law--the terms are defined in it and
RSA's interpretation is consistent with them, as I read it.

By the way, the Japanese modelmakers would have violated the export
laws if the dimensions of the F-15 were not published here by the Air
Force. More likely they took a photograph of the plane with a man next
to it from Aviation Week, and scaled it.

In any case, the goverment may choose not to prosecute model makers
but that's no assurance they won't prosecute crypto issues,
particularly given their concern about those issues and the much
greater damage secure cryptography can do to intelligence collection,
compared to the damage from airplane models.

David
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