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Re: executor-digest V1 #145
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> From: Tim Cutts (Zoology) <tjrc1@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk>
> Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 08:22:04 +0100
> Subject: Re: Registration
>
> There is (or shortly will be) serious legal problems with using PGP in
> many countries of course! This is a bad thing, but it's going to
> happen.
Uh, well, no. PGP is perfectly legal. It is distributed from an
overseas company, now, anyway, and the patents with RSA have been worked
out. Remember, there is *absolutely nothing* wrong with using PGP in the
USA; only perhaps in exporting it. Ardi has nothing to worry about using
it: pgp is perfectly legal for US companies to use! And ardi certainly
wouldn't be in the position of exporting it: it would just be using it to
decrypt credit card info. Today, PGP is perfectly legal for overseas
use, as well, as it is currently distributed from outside the USA, and
*imported* rather than the other way around. I'd hate for adi to be
scared away from using PGP. It is currently the *only* product that can
relaly provide ardi with the credit card security it'll need for
electronic commerce. The secure HTTP implementations are running into
legal trouble as well, and they're quite expensive.
--Scott (sorry for posting such a non-executor thread.)
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