IP: Encryption detour discovered from PC week. [the term

[David Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

The U.S. government could not have asked for a better demonstration of the
holes in its encryption policy.


On Monday, a perfect copy of the source code for Pretty Good Privacy, Inc.'s
flagship encryption product, PGP 5.0, was posted on the University of Oslo's
Web site -- without breaking the United States' laws regarding the export of
encryption software. Today, anyone can download the source, compile it, and
begin sending encrypted messages to anyone in the world. If the software had
been shipped on a disk, its export would have been illegal.
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