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- From: marc@tanda.isis.org (Marc Thibault)
- Newsgroups: alt.security
- Subject: Re: "Pretty Good Privacy"? What's up with this in USA?
- Message-ID: <588320302DN5.61R@tanda.isis.org>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 14:46:35 EST
- References: <kko.724156326@sfu.ca> <6834@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca>
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- In article <6834@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca>
- (Thomas Gee) writes:
-
- > Now, I'm confused here. I was under the impression that American patent law
- > had no authority in Canada. Most specifically, Canada does not recognize
- > American software patents.
-
- Right. The best information I have is that the RSA patents are
- not recognised anywhere outside the USA. I also have it on
- good authority that the COCOM agreement prevents us from
- exporting PGP, but that we can use it ourselves without risk.
-
- Cheers,
- Marc
-
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