🚀 go-pugleaf

weaver@kuttner.sfc.sony.com (Eric Weaver) writes:
> 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?

We have a perfectly legal public-key cryptosystem.  PGP.

If you have some problem with that because of your laws, then I'm
afraid it's up to you to do something about it.  

>                                            I shall be happy to send U.S. $20
> in support of this effort, and I encourage Messrs. Sternlight, Ellison, Bouch
> and all others in this brouhaha to do the same once a volunteer comes forth.

Well, if you want to pay us to re-implement cryptographic software,
then that's a different matter.  Long live US export restrictions!
:-)


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