March 19, 1999

Appeal Is Filed in Case Challenging Restrictions on Encryption Software

By JEFFREY R. YOUNG

A law professor has appealed a federal-court ruling that prevents him from offering data-scrambling software code on his World-Wide Web pages without government approval.

In the July ruling, Judge James S. Gwin, of the U.S. District Court in Cleveland, said that posting encryption software on the Internet was not protected by the First Amendment. The professor, Peter Junger, appealed the decision this month to

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