Re: RSA Data Security Not All Bad

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From: Erik Sowa
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 21:38

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>>>>> "David" == David Sternlight <strnlght@netcom.com> writes:

David> Lucio de Re asks if commercial products using RSA cannot be exported. That's
David> right. The version of Lotus Notes that uses it is an example.

David> I guess companies think there's a big enough market without it. Given
David> the notorious lack of ethics in some countries, leading to massive
David> software piracy (Italy and Taiwan come immediately to mind), they
David> probably aren't losing much anyway.

Then the export restriction isn't protecting much, either.

-- 
Erik Sowa (sowa@netcom.com)

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Subject: Re: RSA Data Security Not All Bad
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