exportability of pkzip was re rc vesselin bontchev bontchev fbihh informatik uni hamburg de writes markowitz dockmaster ncsc mil writes it is interesting to note in this regard that permission to export pkzip s encryption scheme has twice been denied by nsa draw you own conclusions uh i m afraid that your information is slightly out of date pkware has obtained a license to export their program to the whole world except a very limited list of countries draw your own conclusions about the strength of the algorithm sorry if i was less than clear i was referring to our own efforts to receive export permission from nsa for the pkzip encryption algorithm not to any effort on the part of phil katz or pkware i should point out that the original version of this algorithm was designed by roger schlafly and that we meaning roger and myself were twice denied an export license for it the second go round was just this past fall i had no knowledge of phil s attempts in this i do not even know for sure if he choose to implement the algorithm as it was designed by roger though i believe that was at least the case for versions prior to and then there s the question of key management and even if our applications were identical there is no reason to assume the nsa would treat them that way mjm michael j markowitz vp r d markowitz dockmaster ncsc mil information security corp fax lake cook rd suite d mci deerfield il cis
