1996-05-03 - Re: EET on PGP API Quash

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From: minow@apple.com (Martin Minow)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1996-05-03 07:26:10 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 15:26:10 +0800

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From: minow@apple.com (Martin Minow)
Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 15:26:10 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: EET on PGP API Quash
Message-ID: <v02140b03adaed70f48e8@[17.202.12.102]>
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>   ... the State Department is taking
>   an increasingly hard line on PGP. Where once the State had
>   restricted itself to warning developers against exporting
>   source code with PGP file-encryption routines, it is now
>   arguing that application programming interfaces (API)
>   allowing PGP program insertion should be subject to control
>   under arms-trading statutes.

It would seem that any computer system that permits the use
of an externally-supplied computer program (i.e., Windows,
DOS, MacOS, Unix, Java, Microsoft Word macro languange) would
fall under this restriction.

I wonder how much thought went into this decision.

Martin Minow









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