3 April 1998

    Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 23:32:24 -0800
    To: cypherpunks@toad.com
    From: David Honig <honig@otc.net>
    Subject: illegal export of pgp.zip by .mil

    http://braggbbs.bragg.army.mil/libs/utils.htm [mirror below]
    has a link to ftp://bbs.bragg.army.mil/library/utils/pgp262.zip

    Someone (from Europe, ideally) should clue these people
    in.  Maybe cc the media.

    Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 12:51:39 -0500
    To: cypherpunks@toad.com
    From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
    Subject: Re: illegal export of pgp.zip by .mil

    At 2:32 AM -0500 on 4/2/98, David Honig wrote:

    >
    > http://braggbbs.bragg.army.mil/libs/utils.htm
    > has a link to ftp://bbs.bragg.army.mil/library/utils/pgp262.zip

    This is really nothing new. My understanding is that when Kelly Goen posted
    the original PGP to USENET, he set the distribution to US only, or at the
    very least North America only.

    However, some mis-configured news machine actually exported PGP to the rest
    of the world by ignoring the distribution request on those news messages.

    The machine in question had a .mil domain name. :-).

    Cheers,
    Bob Hettinga

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    Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 11:10:38 -0500
    From: Sunder <sunder@brainlink.com>
    To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
    CC: cypherpunks@toad.com
    Subject: Re: illegal export of pgp.zip by .mil

    Instead of making a fuss over this, we should thank the very wise and
    very smart sysadmins at these .mil machines for providing this wonderful
    service for us.  By making themselves look totally clueless, they've provided
    for the spread of privacy and freedom of privacy!  That's truly commendable!

    Personally, I will raise my next glass of beer in their honor!  :)

    Robert Hettinga wrote:
    >
    > At 2:32 AM -0500 on 4/2/98, David Honig wrote:
    >
    > >
    > > http://braggbbs.bragg.army.mil/libs/utils.htm
    > > has a link to ftp://bbs.bragg.army.mil/library/utils/pgp262.zip
    >
    > This is really nothing new. My understanding is that when Kelly Goen posted
    > the original PGP to USENET, he set the distribution to US only, or at the
    > very least North America only.
    >
    > However, some mis-configured news machine actually exported PGP to the rest
    > of the world by ignoring the distribution request on those news messages.
    >
    > The machine in question had a .mil domain name. :-).
    >
    > Cheers,
    > Bob Hettinga

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    Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 09:47:10 -0800
    To: Sunder <sunder@brainlink.com>, Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
    From: David Honig <honig@alum.mit.edu>
    Subject: Re: illegal export of pgp.zip by .mil
    Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com

    At 11:10 AM 4/2/98 -0500, Sunder wrote:
    >Instead of making a fuss over this, we should thank the very wise and
    >very smart sysadmins at these .mil machines for providing this wonderful
    >service for us.  By making themselves look totally clueless, they've provided
    >for the spread of privacy and freedom of privacy!  That's truly commendable!
    >
    >Personally, I will raise my next glass of beer in their honor!  :)

    As of 6:57 this morning, according to the timestamp in

    ftp://bbs.bragg.army.mil/library/
    they removed pgp262.zip from their ftp site.  Though of course they didn't
    bother to clean up
    their link to it  :-P.

    Thanks to the civil servant readers of this list who phoned the boys at
    Bragg.  The world is safe
    again.  Apologies to the sysop who probably caught some abuse.

    ------------------------------------------------------------
          David Honig                   Orbit Technology
         honig@otc.net                  Intaanetto Jigyoubu

    When exponentiation is outlawed, only outlaws will exponentiate.

    Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 23:44:26 +0300
    From: Mike <blazer@mail.nevalink.ru>
    To: Sunder <sunder@brainlink.com>
    CC: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
    Subject: Re: illegal export of pgp.zip by .mil

    Guys, what are you talking about? Just go through any proxy that ends
    with .us or .net or .com (or Anonymizer) and give any e-mail address
    from hotmail or yahoo.com or anything else - and MIT pgp will be yours
    in few minutes.

    If this means "restrictions" I'm sorry ;)

    Mike

Source: http://braggbbs.bragg.army.mil/libs/utils.htm (April 2, 1998)

### Dos Utilities. Not Gov't Owned. (UTILS)

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