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- From: strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight)
- Subject: Re: PKP/RSA comments on PGP legality
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.201157.20682@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1992Dec21.013832.2908@news.eng.convex.com> <1992Dec21.075754.14136@netcom.com> <1992Dec22.130901.937@sol.cs.wmich.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:11:57 GMT
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- Steven Brewer's analogy between crypto and medical knowledge is
- incomplete. It's true that how to heal people in general is not on
- the munitions list (but see below), but some aspects of how to make
- them sick (i.e. chemical and biological weapons) is.
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- So are some healing technologies, particularly some specialized
- antidotes to the above.
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- Thus those aspects of medical knowledge having significant comparative
- military advantage ARE on the munitions list, just as is crypto.
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- I'm not defending, just reporting. No flames about how bad CBW is,
- please.
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- David
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