From: "Cynthia H. Brown" <cynthb@sonetis.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 13:20:14 -0800 (PST)
To: omegam@communique.net
Subject: Re:
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On Fri, 14 Feb 1997, Omegaman wrote:

> paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk wrote:
> > > Is it legal or illegal to send a 
> > > PGP encrypted message from the US to someone in another country?
> > 
> > Yes.
> 
> No it's not.  Where do you get this?  It would be illegal to send 
> them a copy of the PGP program.  But sending encrypted messages is 
> not illegal.

Actually, Paul implied that it was both legal and illegal.  I assume he 
meant that it is legal except where the *content* of the message contains 
something illegal (death threats against heads of state, etc.) But if you 
use strong encryption, who'll know? 

Cynthia

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