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Re: PGP as a World Standard

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From: nobody
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 23:59
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David Sternlight (strnlght@netcom.com> says:
>Read my lips. PGP1.0 was contraband in the U.S., so much so that the
>author pulled out. It was illegally exported.  PGP2.0 was based on it.
>Thus the Europeans who use it don't have clean hands, regardless of
>the state of the law there.

Which is interesting, considering an entry on a PGP public key ring I
received recently:

Type bits/keyID   Date       User ID
pub  1024/B33E65 1992/09/24  David Sternlight <strnlght@netcom.com>


I guess it's "do as I say, not as I do", eh, Dave?
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Subject: Re: PGP as a World Standard
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