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Re: [pgp] Which to install



Sudhakar Chandrasekharan writes:
> Does this also mean that I could use the 128-bit version of Netscape
> Communicator?

US law only restricts the *export* of encryption software.  It has nothing
to say about use.

You might want to try fortify.

> I remember reading at MIT's PGP site (about a year back) that non US
> citizens living the US could not download PGP from the US...

That is not a law, it's just a rule made by the site administrators to
protect themselves against accusations of conspiring to violate the export
law.

> ...but could download the same version from abroad and use it.

Yes, of course they could.
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI


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