David Honig <honig@sprynet.com> writes:

At 09:14 AM 9/2/00 -0400, Steven Furlong wrote:

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<<begin quoted material>> As the President has made clear, encryption software is regulated because it has the technical capacity to encrypt data and by that jeopardize American security interests, not because of its expressive content. Exec. Order No. 13026, 1996 WL 666563.

Were this true, carrying a copy of _Applied Crypto_ (not including source) out of the country would be illegal. It is not. The law is an ass.

So is the President and most of Congress.