Re: OT: Japanese language kit & update to OS 9.1

From: Herman den Hartog (hdha@CHELLO.NL)
Date: Mon Jan 15 2001 - 15:13:53 AEDT


On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 20:34:46 -0600 Michael Slavin wrote:

>Awww gee, now I see it. Must be that strong encryption stuff, the
>"Defense" Department wants to be sure they can snoop on international
>traffic I guess. They probably make you get black market browsers to do
>your banking with too. Go figure.

Hmmm, the strong encryption rules have been relaxed last year and it's now possible to download an official strong version of Netscape and/or PGP including RSA algorithms overseas. The RSA weirdness didn't have that much to do with defense protection or whatever, but more with patents that expired last year October BTW.

Have fun, Hermie
hdha at chello dot nl



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