PGPfone was out of the U.S. less than 3 hours after first appearing publically at the MIT site.

As I noted in a previous message, MIT takes various steps to ostensibly protect against export, but there is clearly no practical means of stopping export once the software has been received by someone.

I got my copy of PGPfone 16 hours after its public release, via an anonymous person who posted it on the Cypherpunks list through an anonymous remailer. Of course that list is distributed to more than 20 foreign countries, so "export" happened that way, as well as by other means.

--Tim May

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