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Re: New crypto regs outlaw financing non-US development
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Karn)
Tue Dec 31 17:28:57 1996
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 19:18:25 -0800 (PST)
From: Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>
To: shamrock@netcom.com
CC: cryptography@c2.net
In-reply-to: <3.0.32.19961228225731.006b3080@netcom13.netcom.com> (message from Lucky Green on Sat, 28 Dec 1996 22:57:35 -0800)
It is interesting that the government seems to have backed off, at
least for now, on banning the export of printed crypto source code --
though they do claim to reserve the right to do so in the future.
This is an interesting clarification over the previous draft version
of the regulations. They had prompted at least one reader (Stewart
Baker, former NSA general counsel) to gloat that I had won a "Pyrrhic
victory for the cypherpunks" by getting the government to treat paper
and machine-readable media the same -- by banning both. This does not
(yet) seem to be the case.
A reminder: oral arguments on my case (Karn vs US State Dept) will be
held in the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit on January 10,
1997. The courtroom will be open to the public. I am told that the
default room can seat 50 people, so that if more than this many is
expected we need to notify the clerk of the court so a larger room can
be scheduled. So I would like to know: how many people are definitely
planning to attend?
Further info on my web page:
<http://www.qualcomm.com/people/pkarn/export/>
Phil
