[5759] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
The well-travelled packet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Nelson)
Fri Sep 24 17:17:24 1999
From: Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 16:22:51 -0400 (EDT)
To: cryptography@c2.net
Cc: stpeters@NetHeaven.com
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Forwarded with permission (the permission being the short quote below,
the message being the long one). I don't have a copy of the
traceroute, but it definitely showed packets going from Washington DC
to NYC through Paris.
Dick St.Peters writes:
> Well, the questions were really intended to be rhetorical and/or
> amusing, but sure. The crypto guys will probably be as amused as
> anyone.
Dick St.Peters writes:
> Remember that traceroute I sent you showing packets from me to a site
> near here going by way of Europe? I was telling a friend about that
> this morning, and he asked an interesting question.
>
> Suppose someone on my network sent someone at the site a cryptographic
> program - a US citizen in the US sending it to another US citizen in
> the US, but the packet route is via Europe. Is that illegal?
>
> If so, who is guilty? My user with no knowledge of the route?
> Sprint, who sent the packets abroad with no knowledge of what they
> contained? EUNet, who BGP-announced the route to Sprint in Europe?
>
> --
> Dick St.Peters, stpeters@NetHeaven.com
> Gatekeeper, NetHeaven, Saratoga Springs, NY
> Saratoga/Albany/Amsterdam/BoltonLanding/Cobleskill/Greenwich/
> GlensFalls/LakePlacid/NorthCreek/Plattsburgh/...
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