> I guess I should qualify this.
>
> I am more than willing to assume that NAI's relationship with the US
> government is good enough that it got a little head start in obtaining a
> license to offer classic full-strength PGP as "retail" mass-market crypto.
My personal take on the situation is that the German Government's funding of
Gnu Privacy Guard may have been used as a blugeon to get them to permit export.
Would not want to have any "Unamerican(tm)" products dominating the
marketplace, now would we?
