[14080] in Cypherpunks
Re: compatibility with future PGP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Tue May 24 13:45:29 1994
To: Rick Busdiecker <rfb@lehman.com>
Cc: perry@imsi.com, Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 May 1994 13:33:00 EDT."
<9405241733.AA12507@fnord.lehman.com>
Reply-To: perry@imsi.com
Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 13:41:32 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Rick Busdiecker says:
> There are 250 million people in the U.S., which constitutes under
> 1/20th of the Earth's population.
>
> These statistics are somewhat misleading given that the vast majority
> of users that are on the net are in the U. S. I suspect that the same
> is true for computer users in general, but I'm much less certain.
>
> I agree that this legal silliness is unfortunate, but I don't think
> that it's especially terrible that Adam would like to be able to
> advocate PGP use at work without putting himself at risk.
You've misunderstood. The point is only that overseas users,
technically speaking, do not have access to 2.[56], and might want
patches. I didn't say anything about whether Adam should be running
2.[56] on his machine.
Perry
