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Re: Machine readable form (was:RE: [DES] DES Key Recovery Project, Progress Report #7)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anil Das)
Wed Jan 29 19:16:21 1997
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 14:52:12 -0800
From: das@razor.engr.sgi.com (Anil Das)
In-Reply-To: Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>
"Re: Machine readable form (was:RE: [DES] DES Key Recovery Project, Progress Report #7)" (Jan 29, 2:23pm)
To: cryptography@c2.net
On Jan 29, 2:23pm, Phil Karn wrote:
> Subject: Re: Machine readable form (was:RE: [DES] DES Key Recovery Project
> I think you're being far too subtle here. The issues have been clearly
> drawn in my case. The government is also now officially on record as
> reserving the authority to regulate the exports of even paper copies
> of cryptographic source code (e.g., books).
But isn't your case still based on the arbitrariness of
prohibiting the export of a floppy while allowing the export
of a book containing the same information, unlike the Bernstein
case, which is based on the constitutional protection for free speech?
That is the impression I got from the various press reports
and web pages.
--
Anil Das
