[14861] in Cypherpunks
FTP-by-mail from US sites for accessing crypto archives?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bill.stewart@pleasantonca.ncr.com )
Wed Jun 8 02:38:32 1994
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 94 02:32:09 EDT
From: wcs@anchor.ho.att.com (bill.stewart@pleasantonca.ncr.com +1-510-484-6204)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Nobodu asks if FTP-by-mail from a US site will let outsiders
retrieve crypto. Most of the popular crypto sites in the US
that support non-exportable materials store them in a directory
that's constantly being renamed, and require you to read a readme file
with the license material so you've been warned before they'll tell you
where it is. Most of the popular ftp-by-email sites have tended to
be slow when I've used them :-) So it may not work very well,
unless you catch a fast ftp-by-mail site. MIT requires you to
telnet to ftp-dist.mit.edu and log on to register for PGP,
which is tougher to do by email.
BIll
