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- From: gbrown@raven.ctr.columbia.edu (Glenn Brown)
- Subject: Re: UNIX Mail with PubKey Encryption
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 02:33:46 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.023346.11983@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
- Reply-To: gbrown@raven.ctr.columbia.edu (Glenn Brown)
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- > If FEE is legal to use in the US, then why did it mysteriously
- > disappear from 3.0? Is NeXT afraid of a legal challange from RSA?
- > I've been very curious about this since the early 3.0 announcements
- > made a really big deal about this capability.
-
- We all know the federal government does not want there to be any encrytion
- that it cannot break because it would make law enforcement much more
- difficult: Warrents are useless if you don't have the keys... etc.
-
- Rumor has it that NeXT didn't want to be the ones to fight the federal
- government on this one in the courts. NeXT is not THAT secure. It's not
- a question of right and wrong: It's a question of Might makes Right.
- This is ONLY a rumor, but what else explains the facts?
-
- Maybe RSN when NeXTSTEP gets is the dominant windowing system (In my
- dreams and NeXT's at least), they'll take on the mighty ones, but I
- imagine it'll be the FSF or a similar organiziation that takes on this
- challenge: With the FSF instead of NeXT, it would clearly be a case of
- Free Speach -v- Censorship rather than Company -v- Regulation, and the
- government would have much less of a chance to win.
-
- --Glenn Brown
-
- PS: Can anyone tell me how to send $$ to the FSF? =-)
-