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- From: strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight)
- Subject: Re: PGP as a World Standard
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.183008.18846@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <bontchev.725034641@fbihh> <1992Dec22.193145.15016@netcom.com> <PCL.92Dec23101451@rhodium.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:30:08 GMT
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- Paul Leyland posts a good suggestion if the existence of my key in
- Bontchev's key file were a crime to be remedied. It is not. It is an
- inconvenience to Vesselin, according to his posts, and he thinks an
- inconvenience to others. What is more, I did not export my key,
- someone took it outside the US.
-
- Using Vesselin's own arguments, there's nothing illegal about my key
- circulating outside the U.S. As I read the section of the Munitions
- Act I quoted much earlier, there's even nothing illegal about
- exporting keys (though I didn't). It's the software, algorithms,
- flowcharts that are mentioned in the regulation.
-
- Thus for me to use PGP in the U.S. to revoke the key (which I assert
- would be a violation), would be committing a violation in order to
- cure an inconvenience that isn't illegal.
-
- Anyone who wishes to remove my key from his key ring as a result of
- this correspondence may do so. If they fear there's some 'real'
- Sternlight lurking somewhere who is being spoofed by this message,
- that's got to be their problem, not mine.
-
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- David Sternlight
- RIPEM key on server
-