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From: dww@stl.stc.co.uk (David Wright)
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Subject: Re: PKZIP `export version'
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Date: 28 Aug 90 14:10:10 GMT
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In article <5941@castle.ed.ac.uk> djm@castle.ed.ac.uk (D Murphy) writes:
#Whatever would anyone want that for ? Can't they get hold of real versions ?

I have pkzip110 (ie the orig version) here  -  not sure exactly what route it
came by.   Shall I post it to eunet.sources?  

The only restriction it appears to have is that if you register from
outside the US you cannot be granted the 'digital signature' key with which
you can validate your archive and prove it was created by you.  This would
be a very useful feature for posted archives *iff* it was available
net-wide; as it isn't, its pretty useless.   Presumably if you did register
at an address outside the UK you'd be sent a version without the DES code
in it.   If you could get a source code version that might not be a problem
as you could just plug in the Finnish DES code to do the same thing.   We
do this with Kerberos, for example.   However PKZIP is not available in
source form.

By the way, I haven't registered PKZIP myself because I use ZOO; while not
quite such tight compression it is public-domain, and is available on lots
of systems, unlike PKZIP which is MS-DOS only.  So I don't know what one
would be sent if one registered from in Europe.

Regards,          "None shall be enslaved by poverty, ignorance or conformity"
        David Wright             STL, London Road, Harlow, Essex  CM17 9NA, UK
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