"Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu> writes:

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On Fri, 14 Feb 1997 paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk wrote:

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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

I remember teaching in my computer security class how in 1944 the congress passed an act making it illegal to send encrypted messages fro m the U.S. to abroad via snail mail, radio, etc; it covers the not yet invented communications too (like computer networks) and is on the books in U.S.Code somewhere. No further laws need to be passed for the fuckers to start enforcing it.

PS. His sexist comments are rubbish too. I usually like his crypto posts, however, as long as they are technical rather than legal...

Paul's sexist comments are very interesting - I hope to find more time to comment on them too. I don't know if they have the same kind of "affirmative action" in the U.K. that they have in the U.S. - here if you find a woman in the position of authority, there's a good chance that she was promoted ahead of more qualified men to meet some quota, and is therefore incompetent. Remember how Klintoris (spit, spit) was determined to have a female attorney general 4 years ago, and went through a slew of female candidates, rejecting the best qualified ones like Kimba Wood, because she did what every working mother in this country does - hired a babysitter for cash - and finally appointed the bull dyke murdreress? No wonder the most ignorant shysters on this forum, like Jim Ray (spit) come from Florida. Did he take classes with Froomkin? :-) --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps