DTI White Paper on Export Control

T Bruce Tober octobersdad at reporters.net
Tue, 7 Jul 1998 12:31:00 +0100


In message <199807071041.LAA27280@handel.ednet.co.uk>,
davidh@spidacom.co.uk writes
>On  6 Jul 98 at 23:55, T Bruce Tober wrote:
>
>> all know (and so do they) that pgp is the de facto standard around
>> the world.
>
>Interestingly enough the Inland Revenue, also part of the UK 
>government, use PGP to protect electronic tax returns from hacking.

Thanks for the reminder. I'd forgotten that.

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