“The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday ruled as
unconstitutional the U.S. government’s prohibition against
exporting source code for strong encryption or posting it on the
Internet.”
“Two judges on the three-judge panel affirmed a lower court
ruling in favor of Daniel Bernstein, a professor in the math and
computer science department at the University of Illinois at
Chicago who was barred from posting the source code of his
“Snuffle” encryption program on a newsgroup on the Web in 1992. The
government, citing national security concerns, said the program was
too strong to be exported, prompting Bernstein’s lawsuit in
1995.”