Re: Paper is out, electrons are in

[Kevin Brown <kevinbr@netcomm.ie>]

At 11:05 +0300 31/12/96, Kent Crispin wrote:

>Perhaps you should read your own pointers, first.
>
>>From http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/newfaq/q149.html:
>
>"The NSA has stated that it has no objection to the use of secure
>cryptography by U.S.  industry.  It also has no objection to
>cryptographic tools used for authentication, as opposed to privacy."
>
>and
>
>"NSA generally does not approve export of products used for encryption
>unless the key size is strictly limited.  It does, however, approve
>for export any products used for authentication only, no matter how
>large the key size, so long as the product cannot be converted to be
>used for encryption."
>
>But that's a moot point, since international versions of PGP already
>exist.
>
Kent,


Yes, but is the International Version as good as the US version?

hmmmm this scenario (( US gets good, rest of world sucks) sounds familiar.)

Kevin
who is now sounding like a second rate whingy US basher!


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