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In article <1993Jan5.074735.14802@qualcomm.com>, karn@servo (Phil Karn) writes:
>Shamir is an Israeli, living in Israel.

>controlled -- only actual implementations are. Therefore you're
>missing the mark by talking about whether non-Americans make
>significant contributions to the theory of cryptography. Even if only
>Americans made them they'd still be available worldwide.
>
>You ought instead to ask the question whether there are any
>non-Americans capable of turning an algorithm description into working
>code.  Evidently the US State Department doesn't think so and nor do
>you, since you defend this interpretation so strongly.

This discussion is silly in any case - it didn't matter whether
Noriega was an U.S. citizen, it doesn't matter if the people in
Somalia are U.S. citizens, it won't matter if the people in
Bosnia-whatever are U.S. citizens, it didn't matter that Shamir was an
Israeli citizen living in Israel when the patent secrecy order was
issued on him (on second thoughts, I guess it did matter in this case
since he isn't in jail now).  Also, just saw on the news today George
Bush saying that USA is the only superpower with the obligation to
take care of all the world's problems, by military force if necessary
of course.  The military were shown as the background of him, so I
guess I'll better go escape to Russia when they come and invade the
Helsinki area because of nic.funet.fi distributing munitions the US
government might not like.

Followups directed out of sci.crypt.

//Jyrki