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From: jm9t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Josh Brian Mastronarde)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Not for Export?
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Date: 18 Apr 91 06:59:27 GMT
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Excerpts From Captions of netnews.comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc: 17-Apr-91 Re:
Not for Export? Kaleb Keithley@thyme.jpl (2599) 
>As for a "full" version of PKZIP versus any other version, I don't doubt
>the existance of one or the other, but, what stops anyone, anywhere in
>the world, from ftp'ing into a U.S. archive and getting this alleged 
>"full" version?  There's no filters on the phone lines that can tell
>the difference between PKZIP and any other file. :-)

Actually, I believe that many archives, at least SIMTEL, only have the
non-encryption version for the very reason that they are accessible from
outside the US.  I remember reading this in some official
documentation--either PKZIP or SIMTEL, I don't remember.  Of course, the
whole idea is stupid--it's not like foreign intelligence is going to
find out anything new from analyzing PKZIP, but that's the law.  

-Josh Mastronarde
-jm9t+@andrew.cmu.edu