Is it legal or illegal to send a PGP encrypted message from the US to someone in another country?
Yes. Datacomms Technologies web authoring and data security Paul Bradley, Paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk Paul@crypto.uk.eu.org, Paul@cryptography.uk.eu.org Http://www.cryptography.home.ml.org/ Email for PGP public key, ID: 5BBFAEB1 "Don`t forget to mount a scratch monkey"
Is it legal or illegal to send a PGP encrypted message from the US to someone in another country?
Yes.
No it's not. Where do you get this? It would be illegal to send them a copy of the PGP program. But sending encrypted messages is not illegal. Please, cite your source --------------------------------------------------------------------- Omegaman <mailto:omegam@cmq.com>|"When they kick out your front door, PGP Key fingerprint = | How are you gonna come? 6D 31 C3 00 77 8C D1 C2 | With your hands upon your head, 59 0A 01 E3 AF 81 94 63 | Or on the trigger of your gun?" Send email with "get key" as the| -- The Clash, "Guns of Brixton" "Subject:"to get my public key | _London_Calling_ , 1980 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
On Fri, 14 Feb 1997, Omegaman wrote:
paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk wrote:
Is it legal or illegal to send a PGP encrypted message from the US to someone in another country?
Yes.
No it's not. Where do you get this? It would be illegal to send them a copy of the PGP program. But sending encrypted messages is not illegal.
Actually, Paul implied that it was both legal and illegal. I assume he meant that it is legal except where the *content* of the message contains something illegal (death threats against heads of state, etc.) But if you use strong encryption, who'll know? Cynthia =============================================================== Cynthia H. Brown, P.Eng. E-mail: cynthb@iosphere.net | PGP Key: See Home Page Home Page: http://www.iosphere.net/~cynthb/ Junk mail will be ignored in the order in which it is received. Klein bottle for rent; enquire within.
[cc list trimmed!] On Fri, 14 Feb 1997 paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk wrote:
Is it legal or illegal to send a PGP encrypted message from the US to someone in another country?
Yes.
Rubbish. It is perfectly legal. See generally http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/clipper.htm PS. His sexist comments are rubbish too. I usually like his crypto posts, however, as long as they are technical rather than legal... == The above may have been dictated via Dragon Dictate 2.52 voice recognition. Please be alert for unintentional word substitutions. A. Michael Froomkin | +1 (305) 284-4285; +1 (305) 284-6506 (fax) Associate Professor of Law | U. Miami School of Law | froomkin@law.miami.edu P.O. Box 248087 | http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin Coral Gables, FL 33124 USA | It's warm here.
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