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Re: ViaCrypt export?
- To: [email protected], [email protected]
- Subject: Re: ViaCrypt export?
- From: [email protected] (Bill_Stewart_HOY002_1305)
- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 93 20:55:59 EDT
- Original-From: anchor.ho.att.com!wcs (Bill_Stewart_HOY002_1305)
- Original-To: toad.com!cypherpunks, hu.se!felix
Felix Ungman [email protected] asks?
> Will ViaCrypt consider exporting pgp? (well, I think I can guess the answer ;-)
> However, pgp is already widely used outside USA (at least as many as
> the US users, I suspect). It would be interesting to know what they're going
> to do about it. There exists no country boundaries in cyberspace, you know!
I would guess that they're not willing to put up with the export law nonsense
required to export the product. (If they do, more power to them!)
If the offensive export-prevention laws weren't there, and if other governments
didn't have offensive import-harassment and crypto-harassment laws,
then they'd probably decide whether they could make enough money by providing a
supported product and pretty manuals to people who can get the net-version free,
just as companies like Cygnus are providing commercial support for free GNUware.
However, governments have not yet realized that they're obsolete,
so you folks won't have that option. :-(
Bill Stewart, [email protected]
Physical-Address: North America, right hand coast, near the middle.