[42426] in Cypherpunks
Re: CJR returned to sender
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Fri Oct 27 10:53:34 1995
To: Michael Froomkin <froomkin@law.miami.edu>
Cc: "Peter D. Junger" <junger@pdj2-ra.f-remote.cwru.edu>,
Cypherpunks <cypherpunks@toad.com>, Jeff Weinstein <jsw@netscape.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 27 Oct 1995 10:05:10 EDT."
<Pine.SUN.3.91.951027100225.10892F-100000@viper.law.miami.edu>
Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 10:46:37 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Michael Froomkin writes:
> And yet people like MIT get approval for the release of PGP this way.
[...]
> If anyone from MIT is reading this, it would be a real public service to
> put on a web site (a) what the system used for the release of PGP is
> exactly and (b) what assurances (oral, written, names & dates) was
> received from State/Commerce that this was legal.
I don't think they got any sort of approval from State or Commerce --
I think they just discussed it with their own lawyers.
Perry