[67872] in Cypherpunks
Re: Why not PGP?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jim bell)
Fri Oct 11 13:30:19 1996
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 09:46:14 -0800
To: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>, frantz@netcom.com
From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
At 08:49 AM 10/11/96 +0100, Adam Back wrote:
>- what they care to enforce
>
> NCSA Mosaic had a PGP signature checking hook, they were told to
> take it out. Microsoft's CAPI arrangement is that they will not
> sign non-US CAPI compliant crypto modules (Examples of enforcement of
> no-hooks interpretation).
Does that fix the "export only the signature" problem (for the
government)/opportunity (for the rest of us)? You know, present Microsoft
with the software, don't tell them it's already out of the US, and they sign
it. Export the signature only (who cares if this is legal!) and edit the
international software to contain the signature.
Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com
