Re: PGP illegal in Australia ?

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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 00:00

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get a dog up you

Zdzislaw Meglicki wrote:

> dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage) writes:
>
> > PGP (and MUDs) are quite legal in Australia. It is just illegal to export
> > PGP from the US.
>
> It is illegal to export PGP code and binaries, but it is not illegal
> to export PGP book and code in a text format. This indeed has been done.
> The book containing the whole PGP code had been printed and exported to
> Europe. There the book has been read back using OCR, and PGP is not
> freely available from Europe without any export restrictions.
>
> > Having said that, indivisual ISPs may elect to ban PGP or MUDs for
> > whatever reason they wish.
>
> I'm not sure they can do that. PGP is a tool you have installed on your own
> private machine, you can encrypt any correspondence and put it in your
> own private mail messages as plain (although undecipherable) text. Then
> you use your Internet provider simply to send that e-mail to the addressee.
> What can they do about that?
>
> --
>   Zdzislaw Meglicki, gustav@indiana.edu, Indiana University, OVPIT,
>   Franklin Hall 116, Bloomington, Indiana 47405-2801, USA,
>   ph: 812-856-5597, fax: 812-855-3310, CU-SeeMe: 129.79.207.179
>   http://blanc.ovpit.indiana.edu/gustav

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Date: 1998/11/11
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