[24491] in Cypherpunks
EXPORT CONTROLS ON RC4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lloyd-Jones)
Sat Dec 24 06:26:09 1994
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: CRSO.Cypherpunks@canrem.com
From: david.lloyd-jones@canrem.com (David Lloyd-Jones)
In-Reply-To: <199412240621.AAA24808@jpunix.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 1994 06:10:00 -0500
This DDJ reference to export control laws is pretty typical:
AS+From: nobody@jpunix.com (Anonymous)
AS+ENCRYPTION software. Is posting such software online worldwide the same as
+exporting it? If so, the State Department might have a thing or two to say.
The State Department may claim the right to have some say in things
under the Commerce Clause, Article 1, Sec. 8 of the Constitution.
Seems to me, however, that the Fifth, Ninth and Tenth Amendments
pretty clearly slap this claim down: the right to trade freely
predates the United States, and is hence "reserved... to the people",
in the language of the Tenth.
-dlj.
david.lloyd-jones@canrem.com
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