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Re: PGP illegal in Australia ?

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From: John Savard
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 00:00
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Cosmo <cosmo@inreach.com> wrote, in part:

>    I was told today that PGP had recently been illegalized in Australia
>and that ISP`s in australia cannot legal process encrypted mail. Can
>anyone confirm or deny this with certainty ?

Well, although there are people from Australia on this NG, they might
be busy right now, what with AES and all that, so why not crosspost
this to some groups where there's a better chance of finding an answer
in a reasonable amount of time?

(I do remember there was a news item some years back about MUDs being
illegal in Australia because of limited Internet capacity...)

John Savard
http://members.xoom.com/quadibloc/index.html
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From: jsavard@tenMAPSONeerf.edmonton.ab.ca (John Savard)
Subject: Re: PGP illegal in Australia ?
Date: 1998/11/05
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