Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!uva!borton
From: borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Encryption
Keywords: RSA, public key encryption
Message-ID: <523@uva.UUCP>
Date: 22 Aug 88 14:06:24 GMT
References: <7596@trwrb.UUCP>
Reply-To: borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton)
Organization: Faculteit Wiskunde & Informatica, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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I just thought I'd add a note about the gov't suppressing nifty encryption
algorithms that I found amusing/sad.

The data encryptor included with DataFrame hard drives distributed in the U.S.
uses one such fancy encryption technique; therefore, the U.S. Gov't has for-
bidden them to distribute it overseas.  This was the answer my Dutch friend
finally traced down, after much ado, about why that program was not included
in the package he got.

Somewhat laughable, I think, given the ease of e-mail or a disk in the mail...

-cbb
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Chris Borton	borton%uva@mcvax.{nl,bitnet,uucp} 
(oops, that's rather flakey right now: use borton%uva@hasara5.bitnet)
Rotary Scholar, University of Amsterdam CS