Zimmerman Investigation Closed

By Claudia Lynch, Benchmarks Editor ( lynch@unt.edu)

The November/December 1995 issue of Benchmarks (Vol. 16, No. 6) contained an article about personal privacy entitled "Shhh! Honey, did you hear something?" The article mentioned that Phil Zimmerman, the fellow who authored an encryption program known as Pretty Good Privacy or PGP, was being investigated for violating arms export laws (encryption has been considered a government function) by posting PGP code on USENET in 1991. In January, 1996 the federal government dropped all charges against Zimmerman. This is considered a major victory by privacy activists.

You can get copies of PGP and PGPFone - for secure telephone communications over networks - from the EPIC web site at http://www.epic.org/privacy/tools.htm

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