At 02:08 19/07/96 -0700, David Sternlight wrote:

At 11:24 AM -0700 7/18/96, Timothy C. May wrote:

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This is a terribly important point: if a citizen of Foobaria succeeds in connecting to the Netscape site--perhaps by experimenting with various combinations of domain names and submitted address/zipcode combinations--and Netscape sends him the file, he has not committed a crime in his own country. (Unless they have their own laws....) ... It won't be readily available though, except for those who have no compunctions about software piracy.

Is enought information available for someone else to write software that would be able to communicate with Netscape's at the US-level of crypto? If so, the US government is simply forcing Netscape to open a window of opportunity for some foreign software company to come up with a competing product for the international market. A case of cutting off your nose to spite your face? Arun Mehta Phone +91-11-6841172, 6849103 amehta@cpsr.org http://www.cerfnet.com/~amehta/ finger amehta@cerfnet.com for public key