http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33651,00.html Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell Encryption by Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 3:00 a.m. 14.Jan.2000 PST WASHINGTON -- If there's one lawsuit the US government would dearly like to see vanish, it's the case of Bernstein v. Department of Commerce. The suit, which began with graduate student Daniel Bernstein's earnest desire to post a simple computer program to the sci.crypt Usenet newsgroup in 1992, threatens to topple an imposing colossus of government rules that regulate privacy-protecting encryption products. Suffice it to say that's not an outcome that law enforcement or national security officials would applaud. So it's no coincidence that those cunning Justice Department lawyers may have found a way to get rid of the suit. This week's announcement by the Clinton administration that it was changing current encryption regulations gives government attorneys additional ammunition to use in court against the Bernstein lawyers. [...snip...]
