JTD> It is illegal to encrypt messages period. JTD> E-mail encryption is illegal
Depends on your network and where you live.
It is illegal to use PGP in the United States due to its use of a copyrighted algoritm. It is *NOT* illegal to use it anywhere else in the world. Other encryption methods are legal.
Jeez, talk about misinformation. If it were copyright, then a US copyright is indeed restrictive world-wide; that's the point of the Berne Convention. However, it's not copyright; it's pretty tought to copyright an algorithm, all one can do is copyright the exact expression of one implementation of that algorithm. What's involved here is a patent, which is (as you note) not binding outside the US. Finally, is it certain that PGP indeed infringes on a valid patent?
... Get the facts first - you can distort them later!
Ah. This explains much. Jason