On Tue, 14 Sep 1993 12:44:45 PDT, <doug@netcom5.netcom.com> Doug Merritt writes -

Can anyone point me to (1) a reasonably authoritative legal definition of what "cryptography" means, that can be used to help decide precisely what does and does not fall under e.g. the export restrictions, and (2) a similar definition from the technical literature, to use in conjunction with #1?

Doug, I'm not sure how much it will help you in distinguishing your objective, but one of the best general purpose references that I have seen is the sci.crypt Usenet newsgroup FAQ. It's posted occasiuonally to sci.crypt, but I can't think of a site (offhand) where you can FTP it. If you have access to a gopher or WAIS, give that a try. Cheers, _____________________________________________________________________________ Paul Ferguson Mindbank Consulting Group fergp@sytex.com Fairfax, Virginia USA ferguson@icp.net