Anonymous writes that I wrote: : > >If your basis for saying that the U.S. government says that one time : > >pads are exportable was the governments classification of a one time : > >that I wrote in DOS assembly language using XOR to munge together the : > >contents of two files, I don't think that you can rely on that : > >authority since, at the same time, the government refused to rule that : > >all one time pads using XOR are not subject to licensing under the : > >EAR. : > : > "Export a random number, go to jail." And then asked: : : Is it legal to export '37'? : How about '148'? : '276'? : '3,289,534'? : '6.33458'? Perhaps I was not clear enough. The U.S. government's classifications that I wrote about had to do with one-time pad programs, not the pads themselves. I know of nothing official that says that the pads themselves are exportable, but there is nothing in the regulations that suggests they are not. Random number and encrypted messages are not regulated by the U.S. export regulations; only ``encryption software'' is regulated. So far as I know the government has never claimed that one-time pads are, or are not, subject to the export regulations. If anyone knows of a governmental classification relating to the export status of one-time pads themselves, I would be very grateful for a reference. Thanks, Peter -- Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH EMAIL: junger@samsara.law.cwru.edu URL: http://samsara.law.cwru.edu NOTE: junger@pdj2-ra.f-remote.cwru.edu no longer exists