Talk:Phil Karn

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Karn v. US lawsuit

Something should be added to this article about the Karn v. US lawsuit about exporting the floppy discs of the code from the first edition of Applied Cryptography. Although that suit petered out somewhere along the way, it was instrumental (along with Bernstein v. United States) in getting US cryptographic export controls relaxed. Phr (talk) 18:37, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Since I'm not supposed to edit my own article, I'll just cite my web page on the subject, http://www.ka9q.net/export, and let somebody else do it. We dropped the case when Clinton redid the rules to essentially drop all controls on public domain crypto software exports. That gave me pretty much everything I wanted so I considered it a win. Karn (talk) 08:39, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Added a short synopsis of the material. (You can correct any factual errors I've made - that's not COI). Good work, Phil! --Alvestrand (talk) 21:13, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

RFCs

I think the Kahn for round trip time is a different person... Also listing some of the RFC's might be good... .Like RFC1313. He was also a board member of TAPR. Vk2tds 23:40, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, same guy. The reason he was so concerned about calculating the proper round trip time is that amateur radio TCP/IP communications can have greatly varying round trip times depending on congestion. RussNelson 16:59, 2 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Early Internet Contributions

I remember Phil being active on several news groups in the early days of the internet supporting getting PCs connected to the internet. Groups such as comp.sys.ibm.pc on the news servers and TCPIP-L and PCIP-L on the BITNET LISTSERVs. Can we use google queries like "site:groups.google.com KA9Q" as references to this? BTW: Thank you Phil! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Laughingskeptic (talk • contribs) 20:19, 2 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The "other" Phil Karn

I just noticed that there's another Wikipedia page on another Phil Karn, a soccer player. In case anybody cares, we're third cousins. Karn (talk) 06:37, 16 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]