From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@amaranth.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 11:55:39 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Leagal Deffinition of Encryption?
Message-ID: <199611082108.PAA09126@mailhub.amaranth.com>
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Is there any law(s) that actully define encryption?

At it's very basics encryption is taking a group of 1's & 0's converting them into a different group of 1's & 0's and providing a mecanisim to change them back to the original group of 1's & 0's.

>From a legal standpoitnt how is PGP any different than PKZIP? How does the law make a diference between an "encryption" program and a "compression" program other than the fact that the encryption program is advertized as encryption and the compression program is advertized as compression?

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