At 6:47 PM 1/6/96, post wrote:

MIT won't let me get PGP or PGPhone. I know their server went down awhile back but, I have tried them several times and sent several e-mail requests. I thought maybe I was missing something obvious or maybe they are just really busy. I keep being told I'm not in the U.S.

As I recall, they don't tell you you're "not in the U.S.," they tell you they cannot conclude in the affirmative that you _are_ in the U.S. This has to do with whether they have a record (DNS) of your site, blah blah. And the message about sending them e-mail affirming your status, etc., points out that the mail is handled manually and may not be gotten to for a while. This happened to me, with PGPhone, when they could not confirm my ISP (got.net) to be a U.S.-based service. I simply grabbed one of the "otherwise available" copies (it was either posted publically, or available at an offshore site, I forget which). This was several months ago, the day after it was released. I fired it up, concluded I was missing some pieces needed to make it work, and put it aside for the time being. For PGP, I always go to the offshore sites anyway, on principle. These sites are listing with numbing frequency in all the usual places. --Tim May We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 - 1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."