Re: Private Idaho source code now available

[iang@cs.berkeley.edu (Ian Goldberg)]

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In article <199701120553.VAA10283@mail.pacifier.com>,
jim bell  <jimbell@pacifier.com> wrote:
>At 11:35 PM 1/11/97 -0500, Anonymous wrote:
>>Joel McNamara says:
>>> Private Idaho 2.8b3, a bug fix version of the popular Windows freeware PGP
>>> and remailer utility, is now available.  This will be my last official
>>> release of PI for the foreseeable future.
>>> 
>>> Due to other projects and new directions, I haven't been able to spend as
>>> much time as I'd like coding and supporting Private Idaho.  Instead of
>>> seeing it die on the vine, I've decided to release the source code under
>>> the GNU General Public License (export disclaimer - the sources do not
>>> include, or have ever contained, cryptographic algorithms).
>>
>>	My understanding is that Private Idaho uses PGP internally
>>and provides the same functionality as premail, with an 
>>easier to use GUI.
>>
>>	Given that, it would still be export controlled, since it
>>enables cryptography. That is why Raph doesn't allow export of premail.
>
>The "enables cryptography" thing just doesn't cut it.  A computer "enables 
>cryptography" to a person without a computer.  The MSDOS operating system 
>"enables cryptography" to a person with a computer but without an OS.  A 
>hard disk with a filesystem "enables cryptography" by providing an 
>intermediate data storage location (and format) for encrypted and 
>unencrypted data, as well as the encryption program.  Even a modem program 
>or mail program "enables cryptography", or at least enables the transmission 
>of encrypted data, etc.
>
>Apparently, the phrase "enable cryptography" is either just about 
>meaningless, or is so broad as to be not usable to determine which items are 
>exportable and which aren't.  How about narrowing it down a bit?  

- From the Commerce Control List:

# 5D002.a: ``Software'' specially designed or modified for the
# ``development'', ``production'' or ``use'' of equipment or ``software''
# controlled by 5A002, 5B002 or 5D002.

# 5A002.a: Designed or modified to use ``cryptography'' employing digital
# techniques to ensure ``information security'';

5A002.a covers PGP, so it would seem that 5D002.a covers premail and
Private Idaho.

   - Ian

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