A federal appeals court ruled this week against Defense Distributed, the Texas organization that promotes 3D-printed guns, in a lawsuit that it brought last year against the State Department. In a 2-1 decision, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals was not persuaded that Defense Distributed's right to free speech under the First Amendment outweighs national security concerns.
Court: With 3D printer gun files, national security interest trumps free speech | Ars Technica
Philip Zimmermann was receiving similar threats during the first crypto-war and published the source code of PGP in a book (https://www.amazon.com/PGP-Internals-Philip-R-Zimmermann/dp/0262240394/) and more or less dared the feds to ban a book.
In the United States, AES was announced by the NIST as U.S. FIPS PUB 197 (FIPS 197) on November 26, 2001.[6] This announcement followed a five-year standardization process in which fifteen competing designs were presented and evaluated, before the Rijndael cipher was selected as the most suitable (see Advanced Encryption Standard process for more details).
AES became effective as a federal government standard on May 26, 2002 after approval by the Secretary of Commerce. AES is included in the ISO/IEC 18033-3 standard. AES is available in many different encryption packages, and is the first (and only) publicly accessible cipher approved by the National Security Agency (NSA) for top secret information
One can find sourcecode for AES encryption all over the internet. It's initial inception was published from day one. How did this court ever come to this conclusion?
I'd like to also mention that one of the designs, "The Liberator" is based on a design that we used in WWII that we gave to the French resistance. Ike never did it, but the ideal was to literally drop these by the thousands out of aircraft to supply friendly allied forces with a means to fight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FP-45_Liberator
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