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Some good words needed...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Rose)
Wed Mar 5 14:11:54 2003
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Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 11:09:17 +1100
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From: Greg Rose <ggr@qualcomm.com>
Cc: ggr@qualcomm.com
After a long effort, I finally got agreement from my company to make our
encryption algorithms freely available. (See
http://www.qualcomm.com/press/pr/releases2003/press1161.html if you care.)
Somewhat unexpectedly, we now have a number of queries saying basically
"That's unpatriotic, giving it away to the terrorists!" Note that they were
already *available* to them, it just wasn't free for all uses! So I guess
it's unpatriotic to fail to make money from these terrible weapons. I won't
even get into the issue of me being a furriner in the first place. Anyway.
I'm perfectly capable of writing my own words on the subject, but I also
know that they've been written many times before. What are people's
"favourite", succinct expressions of why it's OK to give away encryption
algorithms?
To keep the list uncluttered, I suggest people send me suggestions, and
I'll compile, collate, and report back to the list.
thanks and regards,
Greg.
Greg Rose INTERNET: ggr@qualcomm.com
Qualcomm Australia VOICE: +61-2-9817 4188 FAX: +61-2-9817 5199
Level 3, 230 Victoria Road, http://people.qualcomm.com/ggr/
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