-=> mark lewis wrote to Sean Rima <=-

 SR>>>> I am curious. I use GPG. WinPT and others every day and
 SR>>>> therefore download them. What is the chance of being able to
 SR>>>> hatch out the source for GGP and/or binaries, these are
 SR>>>> readilyn available on the net and as far as I can see, are not
 SR>>>> subject to any restrictions, export wise
 ml>
 ml>>> GPG is a PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) clone, right? that public key
 ml>>> cryptography stuff that you can encrypt messages and stuff with?
 ml>
 ml>>> i'm not sure how far the crypto regulation relaxation went...
 ml>
 SR>> See my last to janis, the source is freely available.
 ml>
 ml> from where? is it physically located in the USofA or somewhere outside
 ml> those boundaries? that's what i was looking at... if GPG were to be
 ml> hatched and travel into the USofA, it may be against the law for a USofA
 ml> system to further distribute it to locations outside the USofA or to
 ml> even allow it to be available for download from the web, ftp and telnet
 ml> (as my site does all files except beta area stuff it receives via file
 ml> distribution)

Of course I did not realise that the actual server is based outside the us.
I can see that this would cause problems and therefore I will remove my
request for gpg anyway :)

 SR>> Of course the relaxation of rules is a query that I was
 SR>> concerned about. I don't think it would restrict winpt which is
 SR>> a front end only.
 ml>
 ml> agreed there... so the primary concern is if GPG source or binary can be
 ml> distributed from within the USofA to locations outside the USofA... what
 ml> clinton did, allows that, IIUC... however, this homeland security mess
 ml> may override that in some way ;-(
 ml>

I am just wondering, now if they cannot be sent out using existing file
echos, ie the PDN ones because it would stop adding more to the list.

Sean

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