From: Jim Ray <liberty@gate.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 15:43:06 -0700 (PDT)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Why not PGP?
Message-ID: <199610102241.SAA15788@osceola.gate.net>
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To: rollo@artvark.com, cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Thu Oct 10 18:39:42 1996
Rollo Silver wrote:

<snip>

> I use PGP to communicate (presumably) strong-cryptoed messages to my
> stepson Ray Hirschfeld in Amsterdam, and vice versa. He uses an
> internationational version of PGP, and I use the domestic version that I
> got from MIT. They seem to be compatible.

They are.

> I don't intend to submit my present or future private PGP keys for key
> escrow (Is that what's called GAK?).

Good. (Yes.)

> To protect myself against forgetting
> my private key (which has happened once already) I'll no doubt some day
>  put
> it on a floppy and put the floppy in my bank safe deposit box.

This protects against forgetting your passprhase only if you have that on 
the disk in plaintext. It protects you against harddrive crashes, though, 
which is a good thing.(tm)

> Two questions:
> 
> 1. Does anyone think that legislation might be passed which would
> criminalize my communications with Ray?

Yes. [It's possible. But not before the election for obvious reasons.]

> 2. Suppose someone writes a program Z that has no expicit crypto code in
> it, but has hooks for installing one or another version of PGP. Given a
> copy of Z, someone in this country could install PGP he got from MIT,
> whereas someone in Europe could install the international version.
> Would export of Z violate ITAR restrictions?

Yes.
JMR


One of the "legitimate concerns of law enforcement" seems to be
that I was born innocent until proven guilty and not the other
way around. -- me

Defeat the Duopoly! Vote Harry & Jo http://www.HarryBrowne96.org/
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I will generate a new (and bigger) PGP key-pair on election night.
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