Re: PGP outside the US
So: US users can legally use PGP 2.5. Foreign users can also use PGP 2.5 until the US decides to kidnap them. As far as I know there are no laws against sending encrypted traffic across the border. Where lies the problem? With people like me who commute from the UK to the US regularly and don't particularly look forward to a strip-search and a flashlight up the butt every visit. (Unless the customs officer is *very* cute...) This is why I specifically don't want a copy of 2.5/2.6... - and I can't see any need for it anyway. G
Graham wrote: | This is why I specifically don't want a copy of 2.5/2.6... - and I | can't see any need for it anyway. I need 2.5/2.6 because I would like to officially & unofficially encourage users at the hospital where I work to use PGP. I could not do that when there were possible patent violations hanging over it. With new versions without the legal cloud, I will be able to use PGP for buisness as well as personal use. I consider that to be a major enough win that I was in the process of trying to get several thousand dollars authorized to pay Viacrypt for a 'lab-wide' license that would have covered all the machines I manage. With 2.5 available, we can spend that money on some disks. :) Adam -- Adam Shostack adam@bwh.harvard.edu Politics. From the greek "poly," meaning many, and ticks, a small, annoying bloodsucker.
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