-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Dec 10 I posted the following: On Nov 30, I sent a private msg to Eric Hughes asking him to put Mike Ingle's Secure Drive program for MSDOS SECDRV10.ZIP 68155 11-19-93 Secure Drive 1.0 with SRC. On the Soda.Berkeley FTP site and to advise me of its location. I have not received any response at all. I'm on a UUCP system, so I have to do FTP requests via an E-mail server, which is cumbersome if one has to "fish around" for a file one doesn't know the exact directory & filename for. I'm aware that Mike said he hadn't submitted Secure Drive to the FTP site because of "export concerns." But since this site is already distributing PGP, I wouldn't think this a "concern" to the site administration. So I'm asking any public-spirited Cypherpunk (perhaps even an anonymous one) to place Secure Drive on an FTP site or a site with an E-mail file server and to post the location of the file either here or to me privately. So far I still haven't heard from Eric. I did get two responses. The first was anonymous and sent me a copy of Secure Drive with a request for me to post it to foreign FTP site(s). The second was a request from a foreign site for me to send them a copy. Perhaps I didn't state my desires clearly enough. I already have a copy of Secure Drive. I would like to get it uploaded to a -USA- FTP site (like soda.berkeley) or e-mail fileserver site. In my (non-professional) opinion, this is completely legal. I would rather not -unnecessarily- break the ITAR law (or even openly conspire to do so), by sending Secure Drive overseas myself. Once Secure Drive is on a domestic FTP site, some furriner may hear about it and flout our sacred law and have a copy sent to him. But that won't be my fault. Matt Blaze commented on Dec 16: Please, please don't do this without checking with the author of the package first. He went out of his way to say that he doesn't want to a make it available for ftp because he doesn't want to deal with potential export problems. So respect his wishes; it's his work, after all. I must politely but strongly disagree! My recollection of Mike Ingle's comment is that Mike said that -he- had not acted to put Secure Drive onto a domestic FTP site. He has -not- said that anyone - -else- could not do so. I suspect that by "checking with the author ... first", you would put Mike in the position of having to go on record as either approving or disapproving placement on a domestic FTP site, which he so far has managed to avoid doing! Mike is free to jump in here if he -wants- to go on record. I hope he will just pretend he didn't see this series of posts so he can maintain his plausible deniability that he approved allowing SD to "leak" overseas like PGP did. You all recall that Mike asked testers of the Beta version of Secure Drive not to ship it overseas or even distribute it at all. But I, at least, was -not- asked to agree to those conditions for the -release- 1.0 version and I did not. I have good records of my correspondence with Mike & can quote it if challenged. I will quote Mike briefly. This is his response to my suggestion for a cosmetic change to LOGIN and CRYPTDSK: Me: >I wish I had gotten this to you sooner. At least make sure it >gets in the next release, please. Mike: Ok, the next release (if I do it; I'm hoping the net will take this over the way it took over PGP) will also include ... Well, when the "net" took over PGP, it "leaked" overseas, didn't it. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a iQCVAgUBLRcv994nNf3ah8DHAQFAOwP/UwPp8h/8WrCe8Gs1k6BOCSKo4OrwB8bW kOoLet3qa8bNmDPoWccfaHP5PZDD4TR6oGkqxXqWposvgs+Zl5oN1WDAQqnTBykF OCBdsIHsnIshrLxahD7SCT/s8QxfYsl/hqqL0phOOA5DjCM8sSOEAocOWhywuUYE vRDXy+hQLns= =Fe/M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- edgar@spectrx.saigon.com (Edgar W. Swank) SPECTROX SYSTEMS +1.408.252.1005 Cupertino, Ca