1993-09-20 - Re: meaningless rumor
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From: Matt Blaze <mab@crypto.com>
To: smb@research.att.com
Message Hash: b8faf503de8273958f5f433fd17c8336380c6a5230fc334b1a417c8f2df94c9d
Message ID: <9309201255.AA14286@crypto.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1993-09-20 13:06:05 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 20 Sep 93 06:06:05 PDT
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From: Matt Blaze <mab@crypto.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 93 06:06:05 PDT
To: smb@research.att.com
Subject: Re: meaningless rumor
In-Reply-To: <9309201128.AA29694@toad.com>
Message-ID: <9309201255.AA14286@crypto.com>
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....
>they may throw in charges of importing IDEA, though I doubt that they'd
>indict just on those grounds; in an era of key escrow, they'd certainly
>like a court to rule they had the power to exclude subversive foreign
>crypto....
.....
> --Steve Bellovin
Steve,
Assuming that whoevever implemented PGP did not himself import the cipher, but
based the implementation on the EUROCRYPT '90 paper that was 'imported'
by Springer-Verlag, I don't understand what the basis would be for such a
charge. Now an indictment against Springer for shipping the proceedings
(which contained C source code for IDEA) into the US - that would be
interesting...
-matt
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- 1993-09-20 (Mon, 20 Sep 93 04:29:54 PDT) - Re: meaningless rumor - smb@research.att.com
- 1993-09-20 (Mon, 20 Sep 93 06:06:05 PDT) - Re: meaningless rumor - Matt Blaze <mab@crypto.com>
- 1993-09-20 (Mon, 20 Sep 93 08:56:10 PDT) - Re: meaningless rumor - Brad Huntting <huntting@glarp.com>
- 1993-09-20 (Mon, 20 Sep 93 11:16:13 PDT) - Re: meaningless rumor - Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
- 1993-09-20 (Mon, 20 Sep 93 08:56:10 PDT) - Re: meaningless rumor - Brad Huntting <huntting@glarp.com>
- 1993-09-21 (Tue, 21 Sep 93 12:47:39 PDT) - Re: crypto import - gnu (John Gilmore)
- 1993-09-20 (Mon, 20 Sep 93 06:06:05 PDT) - Re: meaningless rumor - Matt Blaze <mab@crypto.com>