KEY ESCROW ISSUE JUST PART OF THE ONGOING ENCRYPTION BATTLE.(Business)(Column)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: December 10, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

On Monday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments on the case of an assistant professor who wrote an encryption program called Snuffle. The secret code was so tough to break that the State Department put Snuffle on the U.S. Munitions List. Its author, Dan Bernstein, was told he couldn't sell it to foreigners. He wasn't even allowed to post it on the Internet.

Bernstein is a hero among the digerati, Netizens and technically hip. He won a decision Aug. 25 from federal judge Marilyn Patel that the export regulations on encryption are ``prior restraint in violation of ...

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