Re: Zimmermann case is dropped.

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> Good news, but lets not forget that winning the battle  isn't winning the war. 
> 
> The dropping of the case means that the legality of the ITAR restrictions goes 
> untested. Had the case not been dropped it would have expired shortly under the 
> statute of limitations. 
> 
> The real issue here is the abuse of the investigative powers of the FBI in 
> support of their own political agenda

Congradulations to Philip, but Phill(boy this is getting confussing) 
is right.

By dropping the case, the goverment avoids a high visiblity case that 
could change the rules.  

What happened to Phillip Zimmermann is unexcusable, but others must 
continue in his footsteps in order to win a decicive victory.

Gee, Anybody got a good public-domain Windoz version of PGP?

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Regards,
Michael Peponis
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Michael C. Peponis wrote:

| What happened to Phillip Zimmermann is unexcusable, but others must
| continue in his footsteps in order to win a decicive victory.
| 
| Gee, Anybody got a good public-domain Windoz version of PGP?

	If someone really is looking to get in trouble for exporting
crypto software, I'd suggest that they consider Crypto++ or Cryptolib
as good things to export.



-- 
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
					               -Hume

What are Cryptolib & Crypto++?

-James

grimm@MIT.EDU wrote:

| What are Cryptolib & Crypto++?

Cryptolib is a package by Jack Lacy of AT&T.  It provides a C library
interface to a variety of useful crypto algorithims.  Includes
bignums, standard ciphers, a truerand, public key time quantization,
some other stuff.


	Crytpo++ is a C++ library by Wei Dai.  Its original
implementation was pulled after RSA threw lawyers around.  Version 1.1
was released recently with RSA cooperation.  It includes a very large
number of algorithims, including all the usual ones (DES, IDEA, rsa)
and some less common ones: Lubyrack, diamond, rc5.  It also has random
number, compression, hash functions, zeroknowledge, secret sharing,
ascii armoring, etc.  If I used C++, this would be all I needed.

-- 
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
					               -Hume

adam@lighthouse.homeport.org (Adam Shostack) wrote:

>        If someone really is looking to get in trouble for exporting
>crypto software, I'd suggest that they consider Crypto++ or Cryptolib
>as good things to export.

Well, so far the feds haven't prosecuted "Jim Bidzos" for posting Crypto++
to usenet.  Anyway, both versions have been on utopia.hacktic.nl for months.