[118543] in Cypherpunks
DoJ gets full Bernstein review
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Honig)
Fri Oct 1 14:30:07 1999
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Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 11:08:38 -0700
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[yawn]
Friday October 1 12:24 PM ET
U.S. Appeals Court To Review Encryption Export Case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A full U.S. Appeals Court will review a decision by
a panel of its judges that
declared U.S. export regulations on computer data-scrambling technology
unconstitutional, the court
announced.
The full Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, based in San Francisco,
said Thursday it would reconsider a May 6 ruling by
a three-judge panel in favor of computer scientist Daniel Bernstein.
The panel ruled 2-1 that U.S. export laws prohibiting Bernstein from
posting a computer encryption program on a Web site
violated the scientist's right to free speech.
In June, the Justice Department requested that the full court review the
earlier ruling, which upheld an initial 1997 District
Court ruling in favor of Bernstein.
Earlier this month, the Clinton administration announced it would
dramatically loosen the export rules. But officials have
since said that the new rules will continue to bar online posting of source
code to create encryption software.
