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 ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com), Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/
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 -- =====================================Kaos=Keraunos=Kybernetos============== .+.^.+.| Ray Arachelian |Prying open my 3rd eye. So good to see |./|\. ..\|/..|sunder@sundernet.com|you once again. I thought you were |/\|/\ <--*-->| ------------------ |hiding, and you thought that I had run |\/|\/ ../|\..| "A toast to Odin, |away chasing the tail of dogma. I opened|.\|/. .+.v.+.|God of screwdrivers"|my eye and there we were.... |..... ======================= http://www.sundernet.com ==========================
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)
This library contains DOS utility files. All Shareware programs must be paid
for by the User.
9XTOOL.EXE 07/30/97 287615 bytes (downloads 53)
SNES Emulator SNES 9X
This will allow you to play SNES games on your
computer!
ACTEST15.ZIP 04/24/96 16727 bytes (downloads 36)
Archiver Benchmark Test Results, Apr 96
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AUTO47.EXE 10/12/95 156807 bytes (downloads 89)
Automenu 4.7 - A new menu building facility.
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novice, intermediate, and advanced modes. Other
features include: multiple file text search,
automatic program location, complete color
configuration, menu file error checking, and a
full context sensitive help system.
BW22_DOS.ZIP 12/01/95 783817 bytes (downloads 60)
Blue Wave Offline Mail Reader/386 v2.20.
A Blue Wave and QWK-compatible offline
mail reader which offers the utmost ease
of use and configurability. This is a
32-bit DOS text mode program which works
on systems with an 80386 or higher
processor only. Can use virtual memory
to read the largest of mail packets.
Release Date: 07 August 95
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CHANG603.ZIP 04/24/96 84779 bytes (downloads 19)
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COSMIC.JPG 12/30/97 73960 bytes (downloads 4)
AD for the Cosmic Void
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CPYQM322.ZIP 01/30/96 183501 bytes (downloads 162)
Copy QM ver 3.22, the latest version of copy QM.
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C_DEMO.EXE 09/02/97 146235 bytes (downloads 9)
The Cosmic Void BBS Demo
This is a cool DEMO for the Cosmic Void BBS!
Download this and run it! Then call them!
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games, and loads of fun! Download this now!
DIRTO603.ZIP 04/24/96 136200 bytes (downloads 34)
Directory lister and totaller
(Better than tree directory utilities)
ERROR.ZIP 09/21/95 10210 bytes (downloads 127)
Allows for entering Dos error codes for thier mea
If your tired of dos error codes use this
neat utility to enter the number and find out
what is the meaning of the code.
FD5A_A.ZIP 01/02/97 176472 bytes (downloads 15)
FreeDOS Alpha 5 release (August 10th, 1996)1/3
FD5A_B.ZIP 01/02/97 1425450 bytes (downloads 10)
FreeDOS Alpha 5 release (August 10th, 1996)2/3
FD5A_C.ZIP 01/02/97 1629438 bytes (downloads 8)
FreeDOS Alpha 5 release (August 10th, 1996)3/3
FILL603.ZIP 04/24/96 89964 bytes (downloads 57)
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Format 1.7meg Floppies (DMF disks)
Microsoft's new copy protection scheme
GIF2BMP.ZIP 05/21/95 22629 bytes (downloads 405)
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HARDPART.ZIP 03/11/96 5092 bytes (downloads 66)
FAQ on hard drive partitions (txt)
HEXEDIT.ZIP 01/09/98 24950 bytes (downloads 5)
ICE_V103.EXE 09/02/97 83775 bytes (downloads 8)
iCE Prompt Version 1.03 DOS Color Changer
This will allow you to change the color of your
DOS Prompts! Download this now! Includes the
source code for version 1.00 This was written
competely in Batch! If you want your prompt in
the next version, please contact Trunks!
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INKJET32.ZIP 04/24/96 195278 bytes (downloads 30)
D-Jet survival kit: HP inkjet printer tips
INSTN034.EXE 07/30/97 411284 bytes (downloads 13)
Nesticle 0.34
Nintendo Emulator for DOS
This will allow you to play your favorite
games!
KP41.ZIP 04/24/96 97962 bytes (downloads 54)
Typing Tutor: supports QWERTY, DVORAK kbds
MS61F72S.EXE 07/30/97 619678 bytes (downloads 14)
Sega Master System Emulator
This will allow you to play all your Sega Master
System Games on your computer
NFRMT11.ZIP 11/14/95 35165 bytes (downloads 274)
This Utility will format 1.44 meg disks to 1.74
meg. Uses a simple format that is easy to
understand.
PGP262.ZIP 12/01/95 275146 bytes (downloads 93) [mirror]
The ultimate in e-mail security!
PHOTLB.ZIP 12/13/95 148807 bytes (downloads 146)
another graphics viewer and printer..very good
quality
PKZ204G.EXE 07/07/95 203327 bytes (downloads 724)
The latest PKZip compression utility.
QEMM801.ZIP 04/24/96 732705 bytes (downloads 41)
QEMM bug patch: upgrade v8.00 to v8.01
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QUIKEBAR.ZIP 12/31/97 109016 bytes (downloads 4)
Quik-E-Bar Version 1.00 for Windows
This is a 6 Button Application Launcher
that uses customizable bitmaps and
descriptions to call your favorite
applications! Requires VBRUN300.DLL
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RAR155.ZIP 11/03/95 300808 bytes (downloads 68)
Russian Archiver compression utility
Better file compression that PKZIP
RECAVNFQ.ZIP 03/11/96 26539 bytes (downloads 16)
rec.aviation.simulators FAQ (txt), Feb 96
RMIDPLAY.ZIP 11/18/96 145559 bytes (downloads 32)
ramdomly play your midi files while you work
This program will ramdomly play all of your Midi
files. As you work on your computer you can
listen to all of you midi's with out having to
stop what you are doing any choose another one.
Great for those few who like to listen to midi's.
SDRV.ZIP 08/08/95 115287 bytes (downloads 53)
SecureDrive V1.3d is a 2.7K TSR that
encrypts up to 4 hard disk partitions
(and/or 2 floppy drives) using the strong
IDEA encryption method (as in PGP 2.x),
allowing free access to the encrypted
information by applications. Freeware; GNU
Copyleft. Source in Turbo C++
SRP232.ZIP 09/11/95 97358 bytes (downloads 130)
DOS based resume program.
UUEXE521.ZIP 07/08/95 33728 bytes (downloads 116)
Dos utility for sending binary files (not text:
like .gif .jpeg, or executable files) through
e-mail
VPIC60G.ZIP 11/03/95 225997 bytes (downloads 173)
VPIC v6.0G:picture file viewing/conversion
pgm for EGA/MCGA/VGA/SVGA; single file, slideshow
& menu modes; supports Ahead/ATI/C&T/
Everex/Genoa/Headland/Oak/Paradise/S3/Tr
ident Tseng(300/400)/Video 7/WD/Zymos
cards; handles up to 500 files using
mouse/keyboard; includes VESA drivers;
06/15/93;
ZIPKEY.ZIP 05/15/96 196373 bytes (downloads 111)
City finder using zip code
This is a little program I ran across. Using the
zip code you can determine the city. Alot of
useful purposes in the office, home, personal
business. This is a must have!!!!! Very nice !!