Bernstein v. the U.S. Department of State | law case
Bernstein v. the U.S. Department of State, landmark legal decision (1996) that set two important precedents in the field of digital technology. First, it ruled that U.S. government regulations that barred the export of encryption software were unconstitutionally restrictive; second, it declared that software source code can be a form of protected free speech. In the lawsuit a federal court was asked to rule in a dispute between the U.S. government and Daniel Bernstein, a mathematics professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, to determine if he had the right to distribute encryption s...
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