[3105] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: John Gilmore and the Great Internet Snake Drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mok-Kong Shen)
Tue Jul 28 11:55:27 1998
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 11:26:00 +0100
From: Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de>
To: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@openpgp.net>
CC: coderpunks@toad.com, cypherpunks@algebra.com, cryptography@c2.net
William H. Geiger III wrote:
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> In <Pine.LNX.3.96.980727211127.13539A-100000@albert>, on 07/27/98
> at 09:20 PM, mgraffam@mhv.net said:
>
> >The _spirit_ of the law is that no crypto device can be exported.
> >Programs are considered to be devices.. as is evidenced by the recent
> >decision in the Bernstein case.
>
> That was the Junger case. In the Bernstein case the principles of Free
> Speach and the 1st Amendment were upheld by the 9th District court
> (Patel).
A question of which I don't yet know the exact answer is: Is it
allowed (without restriction) according to US legislation to export
(or publish) an abstract algorithm based on which a strong crypto
can be implemented.
M. K. Shen
