CDR: Re: RC4 source as a literate program
David Marshall
marshall at athena.net.dhis.org
Sun Sep 3 13:18:37 PDT 2000
David Honig <honig at sprynet.com> writes:
> 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.
So is the President and most of Congress.
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