17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
At 11:33 PM 8/25/97 -0400, Anonymous wrote:
Declan McCullagh wrote:
Patel barred the government from "threatening, detaining, prosecuting, discouraging, or otherwise interfering with" anyone "who uses, discusses, or publishes or seeks to use, discuss or publish plaintiff's encryption programs and related materials."
Related materials such as PGP Source Code?
Not even close. The ruling only covers Bernstein and his "Snuffle" source code. The ruling provides an interesting data point, but is inconsequential to the software industry. --Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred. DES is dead! Please join in breaking RC5-56. http://rc5.distributed.net/