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Stewart, is it true that T-shirts imprinted with the source for encryption algorithms and available via the Net were themselves classified as munitions?

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Stewart, is it true that T-shirts imprinted with the source for encryption algorithms and available via the Net were themselves classified as munitions?

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Diva: Some guy had an algorithm tattooed on his body in Wired magazine. Stewart Baker: I believe all these things were variants of Perl code. PGP – Pretty Good Privacy http://netaccess.on.ca/ugali/crypt/index/html Diva: We’re looking at a site now that deals with PGP, which as most people know stands for Pretty Good Privacy — an encryption software programmed written by Phil Zimmermann and distributed widely.