Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL!w8sdz From: w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Keith Petersen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: PKZIP version 1.10 and data encryption Message-ID: Date: 27 Mar 90 23:08:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 39 > From: bkirby@cs.umr.edu (Bill Kirby) > To: w8sdz@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil > Re: PKZIP version 1.10 > > I just finished reading your post to comp.sys.ibm.pc and I am a bit > confused. Doesn't v1.02 (as well as PKPAK v3.61) contain data > encryption technology? These programs are readily available on the > net. Has there been some major revision to the encryption technology > between v1.02 and v1.10? I have been trying to download v1.10 from > PKWARE BBS and had planned on making it available via anonymous FTP. > However, the BBS has been EXTREMELY busy these past few days and I > have yet to obtain it. Bill, it is true that PKWare's PKPAK, SEA's ARC, and NoGate's PAK all contain encryption technology. It may become necessary for SIMTEL20 and other Internet hosts in USA and Canada to delete these programs from public download areas. Taken to the extreme, all BBS operators in USA and Canada may be inviting legal trouble by offering ANY program which encrypts or decrypts data if there is any chance that someone from another country might call and download the file. This is a real can of worms which I intend to let others resolve. It may take some federal legislation to resolve this. I will do whatever I am instructed to do by the management of SIMTEL20. For the present time this means that PKZ110.EXE will not be available here and the other archivers may suddenly disappear from our directories. Drastic changes may be required in the PC-Blue directories as well. We may be forced to go to LHarc because it does not have file encryption/decryption. Keith -- Keith Petersen Maintainer of SIMTEL20's MSDOS, MISC & CP/M archives [IP address 26.2.0.74] Internet: w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil, w8sdz@brl.mil BITNET: w8sdz@NDSUVM1 Uucp: {ames,decwrl,harvard,rutgers,ucbvax,uunet}!wsmr-simtel20.army.mil!w8sdz