1996-01-27 - Re: Crippled Notes export encryption

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From: “Peter D. Junger” <junger@pdj2-ra.F-REMOTE.CWRU.Edu>
To: Cypherpunks <shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)
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UTC Datetime: 1996-01-27 18:05:21 UTC
Raw Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 02:05:21 +0800

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From: "Peter D. Junger" <junger@pdj2-ra.F-REMOTE.CWRU.Edu>
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 02:05:21 +0800
To: Cypherpunks <shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)
Subject: Re: Crippled Notes export encryption
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Lucky Green writes:

: At 13:06 1/24/96, Andrew Loewenstern wrote:
: 
: >Why not just print out all of the source code to Navigator (crypto and all)
: >in a nice OCR font?  Paper is exportable.  Then you would 'only' have to sca
: n
: >it back in and debug it.
: 
: That would be giving away the store to the competition.

An there is no assurance that the paper on which the code is printed
would be exportable.  Remember the boyos decide each case on a case by
case basis.  All they would have to do is notify Netscape that it
would be a violation to export the paper without a license, and
Netscape would be forced to stop it.

--
Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
Internet:  junger@pdj2-ra.f-remote.cwru.edu    junger@samsara.law.cwru.edu





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