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Down with ITAR - Have YOU exported PGP today? (fwd)




This is a forward of something I just cross-posted to alt.security.pgp,
and talk.politics.crypto.  Civil disobedience via illegal .sigs.

Adam

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From: [email protected]
Newsgroups: alt.security.pgp,talk.politics.crypto
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 95 21:03:53 +0100
Subject: Down with ITAR - Have YOU exported PGP today?
Distribution: world


You all know about the ridiculous US regulation called ITAR and how it
applies to crypto software in the US, well here's a fun and relatively
safe (YMMV) way for you to export PGP in protest.

It is just a token effort, and of 0 practical significance, but the
idea is that you just post 3 lines of the uuencoded zipped DOS PGP
executable in place of your usual sig in protest.  If they lock you up
for 3 uuencoded lines which came off a European ftp site and European
web page, then well they are stupid.  More to the point it would make
them (the US state department and the NSA) look stupid.

Take a look at this web page:

	http://dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/export/

it will dole out uuencoded parts of PGP.EXE (the DOS binary for
pgp2.6.2i, the international version of PGP, as is available from
myriads of non-US ftp sites).

See my sig for a sample, the first in a long stream hopefully,

And remember, say NO to key escrow :-)

Adam
--
------------------ PGP.ZIP Part [000/713] -------------------
begin 644 pgp.zip
M4$L#!!0````(`">9ZQX3(*,_DG8!`-JF`P`'````4$=0+D581>S;=UQ3U__X
M\9M!$E8,TT@PJ$10$1=*41%WW`KX$=Q[M5KK`&R%(HH+(T.M"S>NME8K=31N
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for next chunk to export --> http://dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/export/