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Re: PGP illegal in Australia ?

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From: Jack Stands
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 00:00
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On 06 Nov 1998 13:11:10 -0500, Zdzislaw Meglicki <gustav@blanc.ovpit.indiana.edu> wrote:

please explain.

How about if I Import it.
Thats not exporting if im on the receiving end.

Print a list of ISP's who wont allow it so we know who not to sign up with.

ISP's are a dime a dozen.

We have they money
They want it.

>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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