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RE: "PGP Granted Worldwide Export License"

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Antonomasia)
Wed Dec 15 18:08:46 1999

Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 08:00:50 GMT
From: Antonomasia <ant@notatla.demon.co.uk>
Message-Id: <199912150800.IAA04046@notatla.demon.co.uk>
To: cryptography@c2.net, noah_salzman@nai.com

Noah Salzman writes:

> NAI/PGPinc has never entered into an agreement with the U.S. Government
> in which we have traded features in PGP software for an export license,
> nor would we ever do so.

> We have never built a weakened version of PGP. 

Good.  But why does PGP 5.5.3 for business (Windows) does not actually
wipe files when told to but leaves them visible and unaltered
in the same place to a binary editor pointed at the disk.  I'm afraid I
missed this if it has been covered before.

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