Anybody know if the WSJ accepts letters to the editor by fax or email? I've drafted the following letter to the editor, but I couldn't find anything but a snail mail address in today's paper. I *did* send a copy to Mr. Bulkeley's MCI mail address, so please do NOT forward it to him again...Phil 7431 Teasdale Ave San Diego, CA 92122 karn@unix.ka9q.ampr.org April 28, 1994 Editor Wall Street Journal Re: "Cipher Probe: Popularity Overseas of Encryption Code Has the US Worried", WSJ 4/28/94, Page 1. Sirs: The Zimmermann case is as much about the First Amendment as it is about privacy and irrational US export controls on encryption. Recently I obtained a formal ruling from the US State Department that a new textbook, "Applied Cryptography" by Bruce Schneier, could be freely exported anywhere in the world -- even though it prints actual source code from Pretty Good Privacy (PGP). The State Department applied a "public domain" exemption to my request. Indeed, the First Amendment demands such an exemption. Dozens of other books and journals on cryptography, many with similar source code listings, enjoy the same protection. However, the State Department has so far refused to approve my request to export a floppy disk containing the same exact source code that appears in Schneier's book. And they still insist that "publishing" cryptographic software on the Internet is illegal. Why the distinction? Do they seriously believe that only Americans can program a computer, much less type? No, not even the government is THAT stupid. They're using fear and intimidation in a desperate attempt to delay the inevitable, no matter what the consequences. Philip R. Karn