Re: PKP/RSA comments on PGP legality

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From: Arthur Rubin
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:31

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In <1992Dec18.230642.9747@netcom.com> strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:


>Arthur Rubin says:
>" R should then have been prosecuted for
>writing his Scientific American article, as Scientific American is sent
>world-wide."

>In this he fails to distinguish between ideas and algorithms (permitted
>via footnote in ITAR) and programs and software code (specifically
>prohibited).

But there was "code" in the SciAm article.  The algorithm description was
written in an actual translatable computer language.
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