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- From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
- Subject: Re: UNIX Mail with PubKey Encryption
- Message-ID: <Bxs60u.JKy@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- References: <LY5SBKVH@cc.swarthmore.edu> <1992Nov15.064520.9574@extropia.wimsey.bc.ca> <1992Nov15.135015.19748@cubetech.com> <1e6jpsINNi71@ni.umd.edu>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 23:17:04 GMT
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- louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov15.135015.19748@cubetech.com> andrew@cubetech.com writes:
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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.
-
- I believe that the answer NeXT gave was that it didn't want to have
- an international/domestic version, and to worry about some NeXTs not
- understanding some e-mails while others can. So, it was dropped
- from this release. Basically, they were waiting to hear from the
- Gov't. if they would be allowed to export it, and they heard from
- NSA/whomever that they could not (sometime between PR1 and PR2).
-
- >The principles behind RSA are pretty well known; the source code to
- >PGP is also available. I would be a higher degree of trust in this
- >software rather then a "black box" with unknown properties.
-
- >If you don't believe that you can use PGP legally, perhaps you should
- >wait for the RIPEM package to become avialable, which is distributed
- >with the RSAREF software from RSA. I believe that you will be able to
- >use this software for non-commercial purposes with RSA's blessing.
- >RIPEM messages look somewhat like PEM, though it doesn't use
- >certificates, just "bare" public/private keys.
-
- Does blessing = $$$ as it supposedly does now? (I am under the
- impression that you can use things like PGP if you get a license
- from Public Key Partners)
- --
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