[12539] in Cypherpunks
Re: Schneier's source code
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Wed Apr 27 07:30:57 1994
To: Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 Apr 1994 16:20:22 PDT."
<199404262320.QAA00764@servo.qualcomm.com>
Reply-To: perry@imsi.com
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 07:28:35 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@snark.imsi.com>
Phil Karn says:
> Oh come on, all this talk about OCR makes it sound like nobody would ever
> be willing to just type in the code by hand. It only need be done once,
> and the task could easily be divided up for a group. The listings for any
> particular cipher just aren't that long.
Furthermore, assuming your request to export Bruce's floppy is
accepted, this whole nonsense is over, and assuming its rejected, a
lawsuit can be started to assure that the nonsense will be over with.
I think it pays to spend more time hacking law and less hacking code
in this instance.
I must admit, however, that I may be the origin of some of this stuff.
I was talking about a year ago about printing the PGP sources in a
book in OCR B.
Perry
