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- Path: sparky!uunet!van-bc!markh
- From: markh@wimsey.bc.ca (Mark C. Henderson)
- Subject: Re: PGP v. 2.1 Released
- Organization: Wimsey Information Services
- Distribution: na
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 21:02:19 GMT
- Message-ID: <C0713v.H6v@wimsey.bc.ca>
- References: <1gnlu9INNh42@roche.csl.sri.com> <1992Dec17.001315.18102@netcom.com> <72224808DN5.61R@tanda.isis.org>
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- In article <72224808DN5.61R@tanda.isis.org> marc@tanda.isis.org writes:
- >In article <1992Dec17.001315.18102@netcom.com>
- >(David Sternlight) writes:
- >
- > So what do you think this Canadian is most likely to do: find
- > some way to get an account on a distribution system and
- > hostage my first-born to get a copy of an inferior product, or
- > just go on using PGP?
- >
- > BTW: The RSAREF license says it is only available to USA
- > citizens so, in spite of the US/Canada codicil to COCOM, it
- > appears RSA is not exportable to Canada. OTOH, we get
- > Scientific American, so we can only be grateful to R, S and A
- > for releasing this idea to the public domain. I wonder if
- > the agreement prevents us from exporting what the USA won't
- > let us import?
-
- Actually, if you read a recent version of the RSAREF licence,
- you'll notice that RSAREF is available in Canada.
-
- Mark
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