Re: wish list

[Paul L Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>]

The rules were recently changed....kind of.  The US Ninth Circuit Court of
Appeals recently upheld the ruling of a lower court that prohibiting the
"exportation" of strong crypto source code constituted prior restraint and
was therefore unconstitutional.  However, the US Government may  appeal the
case and request a stay of the order, and in which case it *will* end up in
the US Supreme Court.

I expect the Supreme Court will uphold the lower court's ruling, but one
never knows until the Justices have rendered their opinion.  Until it does,
the "exportation" of strong crypto source is "legal" in the Ninth Circuit
only (which includes most of the Western United States, Hawaii, Guam and
the Northern Mariana Islands), but no where else in the US.

However, since the government has requested a stay, it *may* still be
illegal  even in the Ninth Circuit (although I doubt anyone could be
convicted *if* the SC upholds the ruling.) 

You can learn more about it here:
http://www.eff.org/bernstein/19990507_eff_pressrel.html

--On 6/7/99, 10:36 PM +0000 Thomas Habets <thomas@habets.pp.se> wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Rik van Riel wrote:
> 
>> Not really. At least one of the distributions is hosted
>> in the Netherlands, besides, it's not forbidden to export
>> strong crypto in source form...
> 
> Er... then why was pgp exported as a book and OCRed?
> 
> ---------
> typedef struct me_s {
>   char name[]    = { "Thomas Habets" };
>   char email[]   = { "thomas@habets.pp.se" };
>   char os[]      = { "Linux 2.2" };
>   char *pgpKey[] = { "finger -m thompa@nss.nu" };
> } me_t;
> 
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Paul L. Schmehl, pauls@utdallas.edu
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The University of Texas at Dallas
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