>From Risks Digest 19.92
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 15:10:35 -0400
From: jay ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: A legal way to export crypto code: in English
"Judge Gwin of the Federal District Court of the Northern District of Ohio
has recently held that software is not protected by the First Amendment
because it is a ``functional device'' like a telephone circuit." as said by
Peter Junger, a lawyer suing for the fight to export crypto as
"free-speech".
So, Leevi Marttila has written a program that translates C to English and
back. http://personal.sip.fi/~lm/c2txt2c/ is the location of the program.
Now, the question is, is this translation free speech? You can read
blowfish at http://personal.sip.fi/~lm/c2txt2c/blowfish.txt and see that it
quite readable as a story, even funny if you remember that it came from C
code. So, are the adventures of William, Edward, Richard, Michael, &
Charles free speech? If so, you can export it?
Or, are the adventures themselves an encrypted message and the translator a
piece of crypto software?
Jay Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED]
