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- From: injc@helios.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Joerg Czeranski)
- Subject: Re: PKP/RSA comments on PGP legality
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.203739.12442@solaris.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:37:39 GMT
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- David Sternlight (strnlght@netcom.com) wrote:
- : I said that government takes cryptographic violations of munitions
- : laws much more seriously than the building of airplane models.
- :
- : Steve Gardner's response that nobody is harmed by cryptography is
- : appalling. Consider the lives lost or saved through cryptographic
- : activities during wars, anti-terrorism, drug enforcement, etc.
-
- Well, we should rather avoid wars than avoiding use of cryptography.
- Or would you prohibit the export of screws and nails? Screws are surely
- essential in building tanks, but the technology for manufacturing screws
- is of course known outside of the U.S.
-
- Isn't that equally the case with cryptography? The algorithms and ideas
- behind RSA, DES, MD5, etc. are known in europe, russia and - no doubt - iraq.
- And all over the world there are programmers, who can implement RSA. So why
- should your government bother about letting americans export cryptographic
- software?
-
- joerg
-
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