Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!think!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!d89-bfr From: d89-bfr@sm.luth.se (d89-bfr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: PKZIP version 1.10 and data encryption Message-ID: <393@sigma3.sm.luth.se> Date: 29 Mar 90 09:14:02 GMT References: <1990Mar28.035417.6496@eng.umd.edu> <2170@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Reply-To: Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden Lines: 19 UUCP-Path: {uunet,mcvax}!sunic.se!sigma3.sm.luth.se!d89-bfr In article <2170@darkstar.ucsc.edu> ted@helios.ucsc.edu (Ted Cantrall) writes: >This whole idea is absurd! >If these encryption routines are so valuable to foreign persons, our >borders are so open, that they would just come here on "vacation" and buy >them! (or have their embassy buy them and send them in a diplomatic pouch) >In other words, the bad guys get them before we do. Or how about THIS? People outside America CAN invent their own encryption algorithms. Maybe even better algorithms than the ones available in shareware programs. Shock and horror. Can this really be possible? >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >ted@helios.ucsc.edu | "If I get any phone calls while I'm gone, >(408)459-2110 | just don't answer them." >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _ /Bjorn