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Re: Crypto export



In article <[🔎] 6qqFhD7Hw-B@khms.westfalen.de> you wrote:

: AFAICT, nobody has actually tested a  non-book format.

Actually, they have.  Phil Karn attempted to acquire an export approval for
a floppy disk associated with Schneier's Applied Cryptography, which had 
already been explicitly approved for export.  It was denied.  He sued.  
Somewhere in the process, his lawyers undertook an interesting test of how 
long it would take a hired secretarial temp to type in an algorithm and 
proof it for compilation.  I'll let you go read the result of the experiment.

The history of the case is a fascinating read, go look at 

	http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/export/index.html

for the whole story...

Bdale


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