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- Path: sparky!uunet!tis.com!mjr
- From: mjr@tis.com (Marcus J Ranum)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
- Subject: Re: Unix Review review of Alpha/OSF
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 14:33:20 GMT
- Organization: Trusted Information Systems, Inc.
- Lines: 18
- Message-ID: <1jp0jgINN78@sol.tis.com>
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- >> ... digitally signed by the vendor for certification*) ...
- >
- >This technology is export-controlled.
-
- No it isn't. Encryption for privacy purposes is export controlled.
- Encryption for authentication purposes is not. I think that the line is
- drawn at where your authentication protocol lets you also do a secret
- key exchange. ;)
- The privacy not allowed versus authentication allowed approach
- implies that, after all, those that spy on you *WANT* to be able to
- prove without a shadow of a doubt that you are you. On the other hand,
- they don't want you talking behind their backs. The politics of
- encryption discussion more accurately belongs in alt.privacy or
- comp.society.privacy.
-
- mjr.
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- "guns don't die. people do."
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