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Re: "PGP Granted Worldwide Export License"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Olsen)
Tue Dec 14 18:23:39 1999
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To: Vin McLellan <vin@shore.net>, cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Dec 1999 10:28:40 EST."
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Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 15:50:45 -0800
From: Alan Olsen <alano@summanulla.pcx.ncd.com>
> I guess I should qualify this.
>
> I am more than willing to assume that NAI's relationship with the US
> government is good enough that it got a little head start in obtaining a
> license to offer classic full-strength PGP as "retail" mass-market crypto.
My personal take on the situation is that the German Government's funding of
Gnu Privacy Guard may have been used as a blugeon to get them to permit export.
Would not want to have any "Unamerican(tm)" products dominating the
marketplace, now would we?
