X-Authentication-Warning: toad.com: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: bernstein-announce@toad.com, eff-board@eff.org, eff-staff@eff.org Subject: Court Allows Unlicensed Crypto Export Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 17:21:45 -0700 From: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com> Sender: owner-bernstein-announce@toad.com Reply-To: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
COURT ALLOWS UNLICENSED CRYPTO EXPORT Professor Bernstein can publish soon
San Francisco, August 29, 1997 - Yesterday a federal judge here denied a government motion to silence mathematician Daniel Bernstein.
On August 25, District Court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel declared the Commerce Department's cryptography regulations unconstitutional. Judge Patel also issued an injunction to prohibit prosecution of Prof. Bernstein and others who publish Prof. Bernstein's work.
In response to an emergency motion from the government on August 28, Judge Patel ruled that most of the injunction would be put on hold until the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has had a chance to review Prof. Bernstein's case. However, part of the injunction will remain in effect: after September 8, Prof. Bernstein will be free to publish his Snuffle 5.0 software on the Internet without fear of prosecution. Snuffle 5.0 is at the heart of Prof. Bernstein's lawsuit against the government.
Scanned images of the Government's emergency request for a stay are available from EFF's online archives at: http://www.eff.org/pub/Privacy/ITAR_export/Bernstein_case/ Legal/970827_stay_motion.images
Prof. Bernstein's opposition to the stay is at: http://www.eff.org/pub/Privacy/ITAR_export/Bernstein_case/ Legal/970827_stay.opposition
Full text of the lawsuit and other paperwork filed in the case is available from EFF's online archives at: http://www.eff.org/pub/Privacy/ITAR_export/Bernstein_case/
Press Contacts:
Shari Steele, Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation 301/375-8856, ssteele@eff.org
John Gilmore, Founding Board Member, EFF 541/354-6541, gnu@toad.com
Cindy Cohn, McGlashan & Sarrail 415/341-2585, cindy@mcglashan.com
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