From: The Deviant <deviant@pooh-corner.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 13:28:00 -0700 (PDT)
To: Jeff Weinstein <jsw@netscape.com>
Subject: Re: PIS_son
In-Reply-To: <326D5494.334A@netscape.com>
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On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Jeff Weinstein wrote:

> John Young wrote:
> > 
> >    10-17-96, BuWi:
> > 
> >    "Apple, IBM, JavaSoft, Motorola, Netscape, Nortel, Novell,
> >    RSA, and Silicon Graphics Announce PICA Crypto-Alliance"
> > 
> >       The PICA specification will also be designed to make the
> >       task of developing differing domestic and exportable
> >       security requirements much easier. [GAK alliance 2.]
> 
>   John, I think you are misreading the intent here.  By making
> it easier to develop separate domestic and exportable
> versions of a product, we foil the government's attempt to
> force weak domestic encryption because it is too much work to
> maintain two different versions.
> 
> 	--Jeff
> 
> -- 
> Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist
> Netscape Communication Corporation
> jsw@netscape.com - http://home.netscape.com/people/jsw
> Any opinions expressed above are mine.
> 

Intents are arguments used by idealists.  Netscapes screwing us over.

 --Deviant
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