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Re: PKP/RSA comments on PGP legality

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From: Daniel Ray
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 11:26
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>    Consequently, I for one am not afraid to stand up and be counted as
>a supporter of the fine work of the PGP development team, and especially
>of Phil Zimmermann, who got the ball rolling with version 1.0.  The
>program currently has far more users and admirers than any other
>public-key encryption system, and for good reason.  It is an elegant
>piece of work, made more elegant with each revision.  Nor am I afraid to
>put myself on record as a principled opponent of the RSA patent (and of
>algorithm/software patents generally), and as an opponent of the
>regulation by the government of cryptographic import/export/use in any
>form.  If my doing so creates any legal exposure for me, then that is a
>risk I am prepared to take for the sake of the proverbial `eternal
>vigilance.'  If it actually ends up costing me or other like-minded
>American citizens, then, in my view, this country's Constitution will
>have suffered yet another humiliating debasement.
>
>    Hugh Miller

I agree with Hugh Miller. Indeed, what a bunch of wimps some of you are!
Don't you see...if they divide us they've got us? PGP is strongest in big
numbers!

And even if the number is down to one, the principle is the same! The price
of freedom is sometimes very dear, but, as an American, I am willing to
attempt to preserve the rapidly diminishing set of individual protections
we still have left. PGP is one of the most important tools to assist in
this that has come along in a long time. C'mon people! Show your *heart*...

dan ray
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Subject: Re: PKP/RSA comments on PGP legality
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