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- From: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev)
- Subject: Re: PGP as a World Standard
- Message-ID: <bontchev.725142714@fbihh>
- Sender: news@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Mr. News)
- Reply-To: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de
- Organization: Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg
- References: <bontchev.725034641@fbihh> <1992Dec22.193145.15016@netcom.com> <PCL.92Dec23101451@rhodium.ox.ac.uk> <1992Dec23.183008.18846@netcom.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 20:31:54 GMT
- Lines: 52
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- strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
-
- > 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.
-
- As usual, David avoids to quote the appropriate message, when he wants
- to twist somebody's words. Your key is not of any inconvenience to me.
- I will not, however, remove it from my public keyring, until I get a
- revokation certificate for it, regardless how this certificate is
- produced. I thought that it might be inconvenience for you, not for
- the others. More exactly - to your concsience, because you are trying
- to convince us that according to you usage of PGP is either illegal,
- or unethical, or both. Therefore, I proposed you to use PGP once more
- - to revoke your key. Paul even suggested a way to do that, which does
- not require that you use PGP yourself. Had you accepted this
- suggestion, it would prove that you sincerely believe in what you are
- trying to convince us. Now you have removed the last hope to
- demonstrate even that and have discreditet yourself completely.
-
- > 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
-
- Right. There's nothing illegal in about that. But because you were
- trying to convince us that you believe the usage of PGP to be illegal,
- we thought that you would like correct an action which, according to
- your words, has been illegal. You refused, which clearly demonstrates
- how much you believe in your own words...
-
- > 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.
-
- Right, nobody has ever claimed that exporting encrypted information is
- illegal in the USA.
-
- > 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.
-
- But you were offered the possibility to do this without using PGP
- yourself...
-
- Regards,
- Vesselin
- --
- Vesselin Vladimirov Bontchev Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg
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