CDR: Re: RC4 source as a literate program

[David Honig]

>> 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.

Is this much different from the future proclamation: 

>> >As the [Judge] has made clear, [DeCSS] software is
>> >regulated because it has the technical capacity to [decrypt] data and
>> >by that jeopardize American [economic] interests, not because of its
>> >expressive content. Exec. Order No. 666, WIPO No. 666

And how soon before posting of multimedia or filesharing tools requires
the equivalent of the (unbounded) BXA/spook review/approval? 

"Ominous parallels"