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From: thomas@duteca (Thomas Okken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Why no encryption in Compact Pro int'l?
Message-ID: <1220@duteca.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 91 00:13:53 GMT
Reply-To: thomas@duteca.et.tudelft.nl (Thomas Okken)
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
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I just ftp-d Compact Pro 1.30, a natural enough thing for me to do, since I
am a satisfied and registered Compactor user.
In the release notes I read that the password encryption feature has been
disabled in the international version, and this brought back a memory of a
friend recently telling me that this was also the case in PC-land with PKZIP.
All of this seems due to some (new?) U.S. export law.
Could anyone enlighten me as to what this new law might be? And what purpose
it is expected to serve? (It is not particularly hard to get someone in the
U.S. to send the U.S. version of the aforementioned programs to Europe or
elsewhere, especially in net-land!)
Thanks!

 - Thomas (thomas@duteca.et.tudelft.nl)