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To: Bill Trost <trost@cloud.rain.com>
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Subject: Re: secure/ changes... 
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 14:30:09 -0500
From: Scott Brickner <sjb@austin.ibm.com>
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In message <m0sb9Nw-00004XC@cloud.rain.com>
Bill Trost writes:
>Part of what may be causing people to worry about importing encryption
>software is that some of it is illegal to *use* (and probably import)
>in the United States.  In particular, the international versions of
>PGP contain their own implementation of RSA, so any use of those
>versions of PGP are violations of PKP's patents on the algorithm.

Patents prohibit commercial use of the program, though, not
private use.