Re: Zimmermann case is dropped.
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Good news, but lets not forget that winning the battle isn't winning the war.
The dropping of the case means that the legality of the ITAR restrictions goes untested. Had the case not been dropped it would have expired shortly under the statute of limitations.
The real issue here is the abuse of the investigative powers of the FBI in support of their own political agenda
Congradulations to Philip, but Phill(boy this is getting confussing) is right. By dropping the case, the goverment avoids a high visiblity case that could change the rules. What happened to Phillip Zimmermann is unexcusable, but others must continue in his footsteps in order to win a decicive victory. Gee, Anybody got a good public-domain Windoz version of PGP? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAwUBMPUxI0UffSIjnthhAQGkZQP/eTE7ngFyUPE3RqHB3spKmSiqneNw9WBy 5SkR4njN56ylUklkQjkxEtLijucugbsmiwIglBVaVaqwMKMoOjtbxyTrnoJj/8rk YjvGn5Zgn4oD0fTegTKmSk3H2QzdzaHJo+l829KOAsvMOaaazsal3ml2+m5BGWpa kwf11AglmOs= =RPqk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Regards, Michael Peponis PGP Key Avalible form MIT Key Server,or via finger
Michael C. Peponis wrote: | What happened to Phillip Zimmermann is unexcusable, but others must | continue in his footsteps in order to win a decicive victory. | | Gee, Anybody got a good public-domain Windoz version of PGP? If someone really is looking to get in trouble for exporting crypto software, I'd suggest that they consider Crypto++ or Cryptolib as good things to export. -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume
adam@lighthouse.homeport.org (Adam Shostack) wrote:
If someone really is looking to get in trouble for exporting crypto software, I'd suggest that they consider Crypto++ or Cryptolib as good things to export.
Well, so far the feds haven't prosecuted "Jim Bidzos" for posting Crypto++ to usenet. Anyway, both versions have been on utopia.hacktic.nl for months.
grimm@MIT.EDU wrote: | What are Cryptolib & Crypto++? Cryptolib is a package by Jack Lacy of AT&T. It provides a C library interface to a variety of useful crypto algorithims. Includes bignums, standard ciphers, a truerand, public key time quantization, some other stuff. Crytpo++ is a C++ library by Wei Dai. Its original implementation was pulled after RSA threw lawyers around. Version 1.1 was released recently with RSA cooperation. It includes a very large number of algorithims, including all the usual ones (DES, IDEA, rsa) and some less common ones: Lubyrack, diamond, rc5. It also has random number, compression, hash functions, zeroknowledge, secret sharing, ascii armoring, etc. If I used C++, this would be all I needed. -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume
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