PGP Source Code Book on eBay
A small, yet powerful piece of encryption history is being auctioned off on eBay, an original set of exported source code of Phil Zimmerman’s PGP 5.0.
As of this post, the eBay auction is now at 18 bids, for a high bid of $102.50 USD. For those that are unfamiliar with the history of these books, during the PGP was classified as a munition during the mid-90′s, and was therefore unexportable as software. 
The PGPi project, utilizing OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology, reassembled the software binaries from the exported manuscripts. Also reported on at Wired’s ThreatLevel blog by Ryan Singel. All photo’s from the eBay auction site.
[1] PGPi
[2] Wikipedia – Phil Zimmerman
[3] eBay Auction – PGPi 5.0 Source Code Books
[4] Wired’s ThreatLevel Blog – Ryan Singel Reports: PGP Source Code Books
