Joey Grasty writes:
At 08:00 PM 5/28/97 -0700, Lucky Green wrote:
PGP crypto approved for export
Alright, what's the catch? What kind of GAK does PGP have to stick in to get this approval? Encyphering minds want to know...
The catch is that the license only extends to business use by subsidiaries of certain large US corporations. See PGPInc's press release at: http://www.pgp.com/newsroom/prel34.cgi It may be moot since some versions of PGP are available around the world, but this strikes me as patently unfair to all those companies not big enough to be on The List. On the other hand, maybe this is the beginning of the end. It seems to me that it will be difficult now to deny a similar license to Netscape or Microsoft or... -- Jeff (currently employed by a Real Company :-)