I have never heard of such an individual, and I strongly suspect I would have heard of them. I believe you have the name and details wrong if the individual you are looking for exists at all. Perry Peter F Cassidy says:
Friends - and Bernstein, - I am a writer on assignment from the Economist writing about a certain cryptographers' tussle with the State Department, a fellow who is known around the beltway crypto-anarchy, privacy, niceness-on-the-Internet advocacy crowds as Bernstein. I have the outline of the case from the attorney's handling it. But my editors would really like to be able to name the party and sketch his background. All I have now is a last name, that he is a professor/and/or graduate student at UC Berkeley and is being roughed up by the State Department. Can anyone here - or the hero of the hour himself - come forward and help me complete my assignment? - Regards, - Peter Cassidy
- PS: By the way, thanks to the guys who helped me shore up some basic concepts for the pieces I've done for OMNI and the Covert Action Quarterly that have touched on cryptography. Weirdly, one editor actually knew the fellow from Texas that I'd interviewed on technical points. (They worked together on a newspaper. What a ruck!)