Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!haven!adm!smoke!w8sdz From: w8sdz@smoke.BRL.MIL (Keith Petersen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: PKZIP version 1.10 and data encryption Message-ID: <12458@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 29 Mar 90 20:58:54 GMT References: <1990Mar28.035417.6496@eng.umd.edu> <2170@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <393@sigma3.sm.luth.se> <1990Mar29.113347.14950@uwasa.fi> Reply-To: w8sdz@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil (Keith Petersen) Organization: The SIMTEL20 Archives Lines: 18 ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK) writes: >If nothing else PKWARE certainly has managed here a fabulous >publicity stunt for pkzip. As I've said earlier, when SEA sued >PKWARE the symphaties of the community were on Mr Katz's side. Once >is understandable. But isn't Mr Katz's product beginning to look >suspiciously controversy prone. Perhaps I didn't make myself clear. File encryption is also done in SEA's ARC and NoGate's PAK archivers. They are subject to the same law which prohibits exporting encryption devices or programs from the USA or Canada. 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