“U.S. export limits on encryption are unconstitutional, the
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a precedent-setting
decision today.”
“In a 2-to-1 vote, a federal panel affirmed U.S. District Judge
Marilyn Patel’s 1997 landmark ruling in Daniel Bernstein vs. the
Justice Department. That decision states that software source code
is a language, and therefore the export controls violate the
University of Illinois math professor’s First Amendment right.”