Re: PGP ban rumor - any truth?

[lefty@apple.com (Lefty)]

>>From: polaris93@aol.com
>>To: libernet@Dartmouth.EDU
>>Date: Thu, 28 Apr 94 22:38:15 EDT
>>Subject: Re: Somethin' Spooky ...
>>
>>I just purchased Bruce Schneier's _Applied Cryptography_ (John Wiley & Sons,
>>1994;  ISBN # 0-471-59756-2;  $49.95).  Worth every cent I paid for it.  It
>>covers every single possible aspect of computer information security --
>>including a section on the infamous PGP =  the security program Pretty Good
>>Privacy," which can _not_ be broken by _anyone_ who does not have whatever
>>key you yourself choose for the encryptation on your data.  The next edition
>>will _not_ carry that chapter -- the government has stepped in and is
>>threatening a court action unless the publishers strike it from the next
>>edition.  So get your copy now -- and get one of PGP, because the feds have a
>>bill _already_ in the words to make sale, distribution, etc of it completely
>>illegal in the US.
>>

Rubbish.

Not even _amusing_ rubbish.

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