CDR: Re: RC4 source as a literate program

David Honig honig at sprynet.com
Sun Sep 3 06:51:19 PDT 2000


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









  









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