From: Bob Kohn <kohn@pgp.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 01:29:53 -0700 (PDT)
To: Cindy Cohn <Cindy@mcglashan.com>
Subject: Re: Stay issued; modified stay to follow
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Too bad.  Prof. Bernstein was perfectly positioned to become a great -- and the only legal -- exporting reseller of PGP software.  (no, this is not off the record)

Bob


At 06:21 PM 8/28/97 -0700, Cindy Cohn wrote:
>During a conference call with counsel today, Judge Patel issued a stay of
>the injunctive relief issued in her Opinion of August 25, 1997, effective
>until September 8. 
>
> On September 8 (or sooner if we get the papers to her) the Court she will
>issue a formal Stay Pending Appeal which will stay the injunctive relief
>issued in her Opinion of August 25, 1997, except that an injunction shall be
>reinstated to prevent the prosecution of Professor Bernstein for the
>"unlicensed export" of Snuffle 5.0 (which includes Snuffle and Unsnuffle)
>and any later versions of that program which he has developed.
>
>This eliminates, at least for the meantime, the injunctive relief granted to
>Bernstein as to any other computer programs which he may have developed or
>otherwise wished to publish.  It also eliminates the protections for persons
>other than Professor Bernstein.
>
>The government has said that it may still challenge this more limited stay
>in the 9th Circuit.  Professor Bernstein may also seek relief from the stay
>from the 9th Circuit.
>
>Cindy
>************************ 
>Cindy A. Cohn                                                               
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>
>
>



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"If all the personal computers in the world - ~260 million computers - were put to work on a single PGP-encrypted message, it would still take an estimated 12 million times the age of the universe, on average, to break a single message."
-- William Crowell, Deputy Director of the National Security Agency, 
testifying before the U.S. Congress on March 20, 1997