March 10, 2000
After 5-Year Legal Battle, U.S. Tells Scholar He May Publish Encryption Program Online
A professor who has tried since 1995 to post on the Internet an encryption program he developed as a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley has received government permission to do so.
Last month, the Commerce Department faxed a letter to the lawyer for Daniel J. Bernstein, now a research assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, stating that new encryption-licensing and -export regulations, issued in
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