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Date: 1998-08-28
Challenge: SecureOffice gegen Leviathan-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- ganz offenbar illegal. Der es geschrieben hat, macht sich über die Vorladungen der U.S. Behörden lustig von denen letzte Woche eine fällig war. Tritt Charles Booher die Nachfolge der Herren Zimmermann, Bernstein & Junger an - allein gegen den Leviathan NSACIAPENTAGON? SecureOffice arbeitet mit einer Oberfläche, die an früheste Word/Versionen erinnert, doch unterhalb von Grafik/Lakedaimon spielt es sich ziemlich ab. Triple DES, kräftige 168 bit symmetrisch, der asymmetrische lässt sich angeblich unendlich hinauf/frisieren, wobei die Generation eines 2000 bit -keys schon ein paar Weilchen dauern kann. post/scrypt an jene, die wissen, dass alle Geheimnisse der Welt auf die Zahlen zwischen 0 und 1 zurück/zuführen sind: 1. Ist Charles Booher alles so egal, weil SecureOffice bestimmte Andockstellen hat, die illegale Exporte legalisieren? 2. Wer will SecureOffice evaluieren? http://www.filesafety.com -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- By Chris Oakes, chriso@wired.com The US Department of Commerce is investigating a California man over powerful data-scrambling software he created and made available on his Web site. If indicted, his case could become another test of federal policy restricting the export of strong encryption. Charles Booher, a 39-year-old programmer for a hard-disk diagnostics company in Fremont was ordered to appear Wednesday before a US District Court grand jury in San Jose. But after spending the morning at the courthouse, Booher said Thursday that he never got into the court room. The US Attorney Anthony West prosecuting the case told Booher that the court didn't have enough grand jurors, and he was sent home. Booher was told he would hear from the prosecutor in due course as to whether the case would proceed or be dismissed. Booher's hunch is that the delay may indicate a retreat by the Commerce Department. "My source code has not been made public yet, so it makes it hard for them to deal with." ...... The court order, which Booher also made available on his Web site, [ http://www.filesafety.com/ ] ordered him to bring to the hearing the programming code behind his encryption software, SecureOffice. The product is a strong, 168-bit Windows utility for making data unreadable. It is also available in a version for Unix-based computers. ... If charged for illegal export of encryption software, Booher plans to fight. "They can either say we want to indict this guy in which case ... I'll plead not guilty and go with a First Amendment defense," he said. Booher's case could signal another benchmark in the evolution of US encryption policy. Other cases waged over the issue are likely to be finally settled only by the US Supreme Court. An Ohio District Court http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/13482.html ] recently ruled in a case pitting the Commerce Department against a Cleveland law professor, Peter Junger. Commerce Department restrictions are legal, the judge ruled, and cryptographic ciphers are not subject to First Amendment protection. That case was in direct contrast to a ruling by a federal judge in San Francisco [ http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/6368.html ] in favor of Daniel L. Bernstein, a mathematician. Bernstein successfully argued to the court that source code was protected from restrictions in the same way the US Constitution protects free speech. The diverging opinions may put the issue on a course for final settlement by the country's highest court. ... If charged with illegally posting his software, Booher would have to defend himself against prosecution by the Commerce Department. In that way, his legal struggle would more closely resemble the first, and most famous, crypto-export case: the government's prosecution of Phil Zimmermann. In the early '90s, Zimmermann authored a popular encryption program, Pretty Good Privacy. He posted the code for PGP to globally accessible Internet discussion groups in June 1991. The act prompted a long federal investigation by a grand jury over violation of encryption export rules. In January 1996, the Justice Department attorney investigating the case announced without explanation that the case was being closed. "Zimmermann was under indictment for possibly exporting without a license," said Cindy Cohn, lead attorney in the challenge by cryptographer Bernstein. Cohn says Booher, like it or not, could be the "next poster child for crypto." "When you watched what happened to Zimmermann -- he was investigated by a grand jury for five years -- it almost bankrupted him," said Cohn. ... full text http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/14666.html -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- TIP Download free PGP 5.5.3i (Win95/NT & Mac) http://keyserver.ad.or.at/pgp/download/ -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by Harkank published on: 1998-08-28 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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