"Anonymous" wrote:

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Can you give me an example of a commercial vendor who has suffered because someone bought a "dangerous" product ( Windows, for example ) at retail and carried it out of the country in a suitcase? My guess would

I cannot give such example because hard crypto products are not available to the general public.

I am unaware that microshit OS has hard crypto built-in. The only hard crypto package I have ever seen for sale at mail-order (and thus not anonymous) is NAI's PGP (and I have never seen any hard crypto available in a store for cash - but that can only mean that there is no perceived demand).

[Trei, Peter] Huh? I got my copy of NAI PGP 5.0 off of the shelf at CompUSA, a major retail chain (I did pay with plastic, but am 99.999...% certain that cash would have been accepted). The box *is* marked 'Not for export', but I don't recall seeing any other restrictions. Either 'anonymous' hasn't looked hard enough, or he/she/it's in another country. Peter Trei ptrei@securitydynamics.com [I apologize for the lousy formatting. I'm using a Microsoft product to sent this message.]