1996-01-24 - Re: Crippled Notes export encryption

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From: jpb@miamisci.org (Joe Block)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1996-01-24 00:27:33 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 08:27:33 +0800

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From: jpb@miamisci.org (Joe Block)
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 08:27:33 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Crippled Notes export encryption
Message-ID: <v01520c07ad2ab1874596@[199.227.1.139]>
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At 9:06 AM 1/23/96, Herb wrote:
>Careful... what would YOU have done, with your customers demanding stronger
>crypto today and you unable to legally give it to them?

Umm - contract the crypto overseas somewhere it would be legal to export it
from?  Then import the code to the USA, with a press release to WSJ & NYT
stating that American programmers were being put out of work by ITAR.

Joseph Block <jpb@miamisci.org>

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