drears@ardc.arpa (P) (03/24/86)
Two questions about exporting encryption routines. Since software is
copyrightable doesn't that make it a published or printed item. If that is
the case you have a prior restraint issue. It seems to me the Supreme Court has
only allowed prior restraint for individual items on a case by case basis. I
would say that law would violate the first amendment and recent Supreme Court
Rulings. After all the US government has been crying wolf to many times
about "National Security" over the last few years.
What if an American Citizen were to write an encryption routine outside
the American borders and then sell it. He never exported the program just
"himself".
.. Dennis
Disclaimer: These views are my personal views only.