Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!usc!apple!snorkelwacker!ira.uka.de!sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de!hartnegg From: hartnegg@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Klaus Hartnegg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: PKZIP version 1.10 and data encryption Message-ID: <1990Mar29.132636.10436@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de> Date: 29 Mar 90 13:26:36 GMT References: <3726.261001b4@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> <3320@optilink.UUCP> Distribution: comp Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Deutschland Lines: 24 In article , w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Keith Petersen) writes: > Well folks, we have a new development - it seems the latest PKWare > ZIP/UNZIP version 1.10 cannot be distributed on the international > networks (Internet, Usenet, BITNET, EARN, etc), because it contains > data encryption technology. Federal law prohibits the export of such > technology from the USA and Canada. The older version (1.02) did also contain encryption. Why was it no problem to distibute this one? By the way, what encryption technique does pkzip use ? I just looked into manual.doc of pkz110.exe. It says nothing about it. P.S. It's no problem at all to get pkz110 from overseas :-) although I'm not sure, wether the archive is ok (length is 149504) I think it will distribute quickly so there should be no need for simtel to use LZH instead of ZIP. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Klaus Hartnegg | hartnegg@ruf.uni-freiburg.dbp.de | for future expansions Bitnet: HAKL@DFRRUF1 | ----------------------------------------------------------------