1997-01-29 - Re: [DES] DES Key Recovery Project, Progress Report #7

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From: stewarts@ix.netcom.com
To: Phil Karn <karn@Qualcomm.com>
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Raw Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 07:11:22 -0800 (PST)

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From: stewarts@ix.netcom.com
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 07:11:22 -0800 (PST)
To: Phil Karn <karn@Qualcomm.com>
Subject: Re: [DES] DES Key Recovery Project, Progress Report #7
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At 08:31 PM 1/27/97 -0800, Phil Karn wrote:
>And lacking that, the author can always print it out on paper and
>physically mail it out of the country; this is specifically allowed by
>the new Commerce rules as I understand them. And who's to say that the
>overseas FTP copies weren't scanned from such a paper copy? :-)

At least one PGP site overseas did that - some German university
scanned in a copy of the MIT Press publication of PGP source.
The PGP 3.0 Pre-Alpha code is now available, on paper, from PGP Inc.

Selling copies of PGP overseas, even if exported this way,
might count as "providing a defense service", if that's still illegal
now that crypto export laws have been moved to Commerce Dept.
On the other hand, indemnifying people against copyright suits
from your company _doesn't_ sound like it.... :-)

#			Thanks;  Bill
# Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com
# You can get PGP outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/pgp
#     (If this is a mailing list, please Cc: me on replies.  Thanks.)







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