From: Marc Horowitz <marc@GZA.COM>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 93 15:00:13 PDT
To: greg@ideath.goldenbear.com (Greg Broiles)
Subject: Re: Bidzos on PGP and ITAR verbatim
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>> If Bidzos is using the term "technical data" as it's defined in $120.21
>> of the ITAR, I think it's debatable. Can we come up with data to support
>> that IDEA and RSA are "commonly taught .. in academia"? 

>                   the U.S. Munitions List. This definition does not
>                   include information concerning general scientific,
>                   mathematical, or engineering principles commonly
>                   taught in academia. It also does not include basic

Well, I learned about the RSA algorithms in 18.063 (Introduction to
Algebraic Systems), which is a required mathematics course at MIT for
an undergraduate CS degree.  It is normally taken by sophomores and
juniors.  MIT isn't exactly a "common" school, but it's certainly
academia.  Unfortunately, there is no textbook for this course.

Public Key Cryptosystems are also discussed in the textbook
(Introduction to Algorithms, Corman/Leiserson/Rivest, MIT Press) for
6.046 (Introduction to Algorithms), but are not discussed extensively
in the class.

As I know foreign nationals who have graduated, they must have taken
these courses.

		Marc