CDR: Re: RC4 source as a literate program

[David Marshall]

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.