On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Martyn Perry wrote:
> >From Risks Digest 19.92
>
> Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 15:10:35 -0400
> From: jay ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 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?
Dr. Junger is a member of my Linux Users Group. We've been keeping up to
date on the evolution of this court case for some time. It has been quite
interesting.
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