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IP: A legal way to export crypto code: in English?
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 15:31:47 -0400
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 15:07:02 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dr. Alan Sherman" <sherman () cs umbc edu> Subject: A legal way to export crypto code: in English "Judge Gwin of the Federal District Court of the Northern District of Ohio has recently held that software is not protected by the First Amendment because it is a ``functional device'' like a telephone circuit." as said by Peter Junger, a lawyer suing for the fight to export crypto as "free-speech". So, Leevi Marttila has written a program that translates C to English and back. http://personal.sip.fi/~lm/c2txt2c/ is the location of the program. Now, the question is, is this translation free speech? You can read blowfish at http://personal.sip.fi/~lm/c2txt2c/blowfish.txt and see that it quite readable as a story, even funny if you remember that it came from C code. So, are the adventures of William, Edward, Richard, Michael, & Charles free speech? If so, you can export it? Or, are the adventures themselves an encrypted message and the translator a piece of crypto software? Jay Ball jay () invengen com ---------------------------------+------------------------------------- | Jeremy Epstein | E-mail: jepstein () tis com | | TIS Labs at Network Associates | Voice: +1 (703) 356-2225 Ext 106 | | Northern Virginia Office | Fax: +1 (703) 821-8426 | ---------------------------------+-------------------------------------
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