Protected WLAN

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 09:06:56 -0700,
  JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/04/11 07:15, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > Neither is illegal to export (except to a few countries the US wants to
> > punish) as long as you follow the rules. You can also write it as a book
> > and publish the book, which is what was done. DJB also got some rulings
> > on whether the restrictions on publishing encryption algorithms was
> > something that could be restricted. The US government kept trying to drag
> > things out, and ended up saying DJB wouldn't be prosecuted so that the
> > case would be declared moot in order to avoid an unfavorable ruling by
> > the supreme court. So if you don't want to follow the rules, in the end
> > you would likely still win on free speech grounds, but it might cost
> > you a lot of money and some jail time if you publish before going to
> > court.
> So, is DJB totally broke now? :)

The EFF funded some of the lawsuit and he had another donation fund for it as
well. I don't know what his out of pocket expenses ended up being. He also
didn't publish his class notes (and still hasn't) before starting the lawsuit,
so that he wouldn't be subject to jail time.