FYI, Bernstein's side argues that encrypted information and algorithms are just as much speech as any other type or class of information. This case could affect the draconian ITAR/EAR regulations against export of cryptography from the United States...as if other countries don't know about computers and math...hell, half of the crypto software we use is imported from Europe and South Africa. *sigh* -hedges- >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 20:51:37 -0800 >From: John Gilmore <gnuat_private> >Subject: Unofficial transcript of Bernstein hearing published > >EFF has published an unofficial transcript of the hearing in front of >three judges at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on >December 8. The hearing discussed whether the export controls on >cryptography are an unconstitutional prior restraint on publication. >See > > http://www.eff.org/pub/Privacy/ITAR_export/Bernstein_case/Legal/ > >There is no news on the judges' decision from that hearing. > > John Gilmore > Electronic Frontier Foundation >
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