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- From: steve@cs.hw.ac.uk (Steven Salvini)
- Newsgroups: alt.security
- Subject: Re: Making PGP legal?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.103840.26781@cs.hw.ac.uk>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 10:38:40 GMT
- References: <1993Jan18.172342.7553@Princeton.EDU> <PCL.93Jan20102914@rhodium.ox.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Dept of Computing & Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland
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- In article <PCL.93Jan20102914@rhodium.ox.ac.uk> pcl@ox.ac.uk (Paul C Leyland) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan18.172342.7553@Princeton.EDU> dagolden@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Alexandre Golden) writes:
- >
- >
- > It seems that PGP (2.x) is popular because of its well conceived interface
- > and because of its wide distribution. However, it is illegal to use in the
- > US (and Canada?) because of a patent infringement. Now, while the rest of
- > the world is saying "Well that's your problem," it really doesn't make
- > sense to have a split
- >
- >Why on earth should most of the world have to fudge a perfectly ok
- >program just to avoid a few local North American difficulties?
- >
- >Add 8-) to taste.
- >
- >Paul
- >
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- Does this remind anyone else about DES in "the rest of the world" ;-)
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- Steve.
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