Encryption/data-changing in russia (fwd)
Charles Gimon
gimonca at skypoint.com
Fri Dec 6 05:46:20 PST 1996
Forwarded message:
> Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 14:23:48 -1000
> To: cypherpunks at toad.com
> From: Benjamin Grosman <bgrosman at healey.com.au>
> Subject: Encryption/data-changing in russia
> A friend of mine who is Russian, but lives out here, frequently
> corresponds with friends in Russia via email, and in the course of sending
> emai, they occasionally send an attachment. However, the attachment that
> _all_ his russian friends send, including the ones who use MIME capable
> email clients such as Eudora, always, _always_, uuencode files, and they say
> they can't do MIME. I am wondering if the encryption/data-changing laws in
> Russia are so strict as to disallow MIME encoding even, but still allows UU
> for some reason?
>
Probably has to do with the character set they're using; nothing more.
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