New York Times - New Subtle Bug Infests PGP

In other recent news, computer hackers at the Hacking In Progress conference also announced that they had scanned in a paper copy of the source code of PGP 5.0. The company released the source code to lessen the fears of users that a secret backdoor may have been inserted in the software.

Paper copies of the software were exported because the United States government has never objected to the export of paper. The paper versions are more obviously protected by the First Amendment than the electronic versions.