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Re: Exporting crypto from the US? Think first...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Gillogly)
Fri May 7 15:01:06 1999
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 09:18:01 -0700
From: Jim Gillogly <jim@acm.org>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com, cryptography@c2.net
James A. Donald wrote:
>> Who has been prosecuted?
I think a couple in Florida was prosecuted successfully under
ITAR (pre-EAR) for exporting pirate cable decoder boxes,
specifically because DES was built in. However, I don't have
a cite, so don't take this as gospel. I don't recall any others.
Zooko wrote:
> Where is Charles Booher? He was on the verge of suicide a
> couple of months before he was arrested for exporting crypto.
> Was he chosen because they knew he was suicidal? What happened
> to his case?
He (or someone claiming to be him) showed up on sci.crypt within
the last month making some wild-eyed claims about how PGP 6
was crap -- that NSA had control of it through NAI, that it
generated only 1 billion different key pairs, and so on. In the
course of one of the tirades (posted 1999/04/15 under the title
"Re: PGP, The Big Lie (Theorem with Incomplete Proof) he said
he's off the hook:
== They dropped me. Too bad, I was looking forward to presenting
== my arguments in front of the US Supreme court.
--
Jim Gillogly
Trewesday, 16 Thrimidge S.R. 1999, 16:02
12.19.6.3.1, 4 Imix 9 Uo, Seventh Lord of Night
