From: Cypherpunks Maintenance Account <cpunks@www.video-collage.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 08:22:57 +0800
To: cpunks@www.video-collage.com (Cypherpunks Maintenance Account)
Subject: Re: Stay issued; modified stay to follow (fwd)
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>From cpunks  Fri Aug 29 04:41:12 1997
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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 01:06:00 -0700
To: Cindy Cohn <Cindy@mcglashan.com>
From: Bob Kohn <kohn@pgp.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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>http://www.McGlashan.com

>

>

>




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<smaller>"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</smaller>

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