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Own a piece of the crypto wars
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R.A. Hettinga)
Tue Jun 17 09:42:19 2008
From: "R.A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
To: cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net, cryptography@metzdowd.com,
gold-silver-crypto@rayservers.com, dgcchat@dgcchat.com
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:20:43 -0400
Cc: Sameer Parekh <sameer@creativedestruction.com>
If Sameer autographed it, it would probably worth much more.
:-)
Cheers,
RAH
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Destruction
Creative Destruction
Sameer Parekh
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Own a piece of the crypto wars
Back in the day, it was illegal to export cryptographic software.
The solution for my company, C2Net Software, Inc., was to develop an =20
offshore development team and have them develop the software there. =20
Other companies developed different strategies. Most opted to sell =20
broken products to their overseas customers. One other company cared =20
about the security of their customers. That company was PGP.
PGP chose a different strategy however. They published their source =20
code as a book. The book was then exported, the contents of that book =20=
were then scanned in, and then a completely legal international =20
version of PGP was born.
More details of the story.
Some may associate this PGP scanning effort with the track 'round and =20=
round'. That association is not without reason. They may also remember =20=
a sign that said, "This is the cypherpunks party tent. If you wish to =20=
sleep, remove your tent from the area. Have a nice day (+ night)". =20
That sign, btw, lives on.
In any case, I was going through all my boxes trying to decide what I =20=
should keep, toss, or sell, and I found my very own copy of the =20
infamous PGP 5.0 source code book. NIB! (Well actually there was no =20
box. But still shrinkwrapped. So NIB.)
I decided that the bulk was too much for me to handle moving into a =20
tiny little NYC apartment. So ebay it is.
Hopefully it will find a nice loving home.
PGP 5.0 Source Code Books:
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