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Re: Did the court publish cryptography on the web?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Honig)
Fri May 7 20:07:17 1999

Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 14:58:11 -0700
To: Martin Minow <minow@apple.com>, cryptography@c2.net
From: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
In-Reply-To: <v03102805b358fafa1d12@[17.202.40.158]>

At 01:21 PM 5/7/99 -0700, Martin Minow wrote:
>The appeals court decision, at the web at
><http://www.ce9.uscourts.gov/web/newopinions.nsf/f606ac175e010d64882566eb00
65811
>8/febd2452a8a4d79b8825676900685b71?OpenDocument>
>
>contains source of the core of Bernstein's "Sunffle" program. (Search
>for "Hash512" if you want to see just the naughty bits.)
>
>Isn't publishing this on a web page what Bernstein wasn't allowed
>to do because of ITAR/EAR?
>
>Martin.

Yeah, but the excerpt they published is not documented
nor are the variable/function names terribly narritive.  
Would have been *much* more poignant to use more readable code
to make their point.  

Still, two out of three judges prefer the first amendment...












  






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