Public key crypto

["Rick H. Wesson" <wessorh@ar.com>]

Kent,

The use of pgp by the population at large may be ok, in some counrties
it is not. Use of pgp by the regestries would be strictly illegal and RSA
would take issue with the regestries useing it for commercial purposes.
This is why NSI uses viacrypt, I do believe Viacrypt is not exportable from
the USA.


>From the PGP FAQ
   1.5 Is encryption legal?

    In much of the civilized world, encryption is either legal, or at least
    tolerated. However, there are a some countries where such activities could
    put you in front of a firing squad! Check with the laws in your own
    country before using PGP or any other encryption product. A couple of
    the countries where encryption is illegal are France, Iran, Russia
    and Iraq.

Lastly the use if pgp via pipes o FIFOs is still a bit more unreliable, and
slow bring transactions to 1/20 of what they could be w/o using pgp.

IMHO the IAHC and CORE should not premote the use of technology that
would be illegal for a registry and/or an individual to use. The technology
used to run the CORE db shold not incur any legal issues for its use.

-Rick

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Rick H. Wesson