Too bad. Prof. Bernstein was perfectly positioned to become a great -- and the only legal -- exporting reseller of PGP software. (no, this is not off the record) Bob At 06:21 PM 8/28/97 -0700, Cindy Cohn wrote:
During a conference call with counsel today, Judge Patel issued a stay of the injunctive relief issued in her Opinion of August 25, 1997, effective until September 8.
On September 8 (or sooner if we get the papers to her) the Court she will issue a formal Stay Pending Appeal which will stay the injunctive relief issued in her Opinion of August 25, 1997, except that an injunction shall be reinstated to prevent the prosecution of Professor Bernstein for the "unlicensed export" of Snuffle 5.0 (which includes Snuffle and Unsnuffle) and any later versions of that program which he has developed.
This eliminates, at least for the meantime, the injunctive relief granted to Bernstein as to any other computer programs which he may have developed or otherwise wished to publish. It also eliminates the protections for persons other than Professor Bernstein.
The government has said that it may still challenge this more limited stay in the 9th Circuit. Professor Bernstein may also seek relief from the stay from the 9th Circuit.
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Robert H. Kohn Vice President, Business Development PRETTY GOOD PRIVACY, INC. 2121 S. El Camino Real, 9th Floor San Mateo, California 94403 Direct: (415) 524-6220 Cellular: (415) 297-6527 Main: (415) 572-0430 Fax: (415) 572-1932 kohn@pgp.com PGP Home Page: http://www.pgp.com Personal Home page: http://www.kohnmusic.com/people/bkohn.html "If all the personal computers in the world - ~260 million computers - were put to work on a single PGP-encrypted message, it would still take an estimated 12 million times the age of the universe, on average, to break a single message." -- William Crowell, Deputy Director of the National Security Agency, testifying before the U.S. Congress on March 20, 1997