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RE: Rot 13
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RE: Rot 13


  • Subject: RE: Rot 13
  • From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 11:18:05 -0700

On 7/2/01 11:13 AM, Bill Briggs <email@hidden> wrote:

>>It's an encryption scheme that is so secure that
>>it got the inventer (Phil Zimmerman) arrested for violations of a
>>national-security act because his distribution of it allowed it to go to
>>foreign governments.
>
> If memory serves, it was classified as a "munition".

That's right. For some reason, cryptography is considered munitions
under that law.

--Michelle


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