Cynthia H. Brown
cynthb at sonetis.com
Fri Feb 14 15:58:16 PST 1997
On Fri, 14 Feb 1997, Omegaman wrote:
> paul at fatmans.demon.co.uk wrote:
> > > Is it legal or illegal to send a
> > > PGP encrypted message from the US to someone in another country?
> >
> > Yes.
>
> No it's not. Where do you get this? It would be illegal to send
> them a copy of the PGP program. But sending encrypted messages is
> not illegal.
Actually, Paul implied that it was both legal and illegal. I assume he
meant that it is legal except where the *content* of the message contains
something illegal (death threats against heads of state, etc.) But if you
use strong encryption, who'll know?
Cynthia
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