From: nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous)
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 09:22:00 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Need info! / Re: Export a random number, go to jail
Message-ID: <199711040106.CAA04679@basement.replay.com>
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Tim May wrote:
> 
> At 9:46 AM -0700 11/3/97, Peter D. Junger wrote:
> 
> >: One time pads are under rated, in my view.  Not only are they secure
> >: forever, but the executive branch of the U.S. government says they are
> >: exportable.
> >
> >If your basis for saying that the U.S. government says that one time
> >pads are exportable was the governments classification of a one time
> >that I wrote in DOS assembly language using XOR to munge together the
> >contents of two files, I don't think that you can rely on that
> >authority since, at the same time, the government refused to rule that
> >all one time pads using XOR are not subject to licensing under the
> >EAR.
> 
> "Export a random number, go to jail."

Is it legal to export '37'?
How about '148'?
'276'?
'3,289,534'?
'6.33458'?

Thanks,
A Fucking Iditot