Article: Encryption. (legal case involving first amendment to the constitution)(Legal Reporter)

On rehearing an encryption case first decided in late 1996, a U.S. district court in San Francisco again ruled that some government encryption export restrictions violate First Amendment rights to free speech and are, therefore, unconstitutional. The court also prohibited federal officials from enforcing current export rules in this case.

In 1992, Daniel Bernstein, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California at Berkeley, developed an encryption algorithm. Bernstein drafted an academic thesis about the program and wrote a "source code" in a high-level computer language.

The Department of State informed Bernstein that the program and all documents related ...

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