D. J. Bernstein
Bernstein v. United States
Acknowledgments
Bernstein v. United States
received a tremendous amount of support from the community.
Thanks to all the attorneys who contributed time to this case.
Cindy Cohn (McGlashan & Sarrail)
was pro-bono lead counsel from the start of the case
until she joined EFF in 2000.
Other pro-bono members of the legal team at various times:
- Lee Tien.
- Ed Ross (Steefel, Levitt & Weiss).
- Jim Wheaton (First Amendment Project).
- Elizabeth Pritzker (First Amendment Project).
- Bob Corn-Revere (Hogan & Hartson).
- Julia Kogan (Hogan & Hartson).
- Jeremy Miller (Hogan & Hartson).
- Dean Morehous (Thelen, Marin, Johnson & Bridges).
- Sheri Byrne (Thelen, Marin, Johnson & Bridges).
Thanks also to John Gilmore,
who was a consultant to the legal team for many years.
Thanks to everyone who submitted a declaration:
- Hal Abelson, 1996 (re computer science).
- Andrew Appel, 1996 (re computer science).
- Brian Behlendorf, 1996 (re Apache censorship incident).
- Matt Bishop, 1996 (re cryptography and computer security).
- Matt Blaze, 1996 (re cryptography).
- Jim Demberger, 1996 (re VOTPCRYP censorship incident).
- Carl Ellison, 1996 (re computer science).
- Paul Ginsparg, 1996 (re science).
- Michael Paul Johnson, 1996 (re censorship incidents).
- Peter Junger, 1996 (re course censorship incident).
- Lawrence Miller, 1996 (re course censorship incident).
- Tim O'Reilly, 2002 (re publication pricing).
- Robert Prior, 1996 (re PGP book).
- Bruce Schneier, 1996 (re cryptography).
- Bruce Schneier, 2002 (re one-time pad).
- Julie Smith, 1996 (re UIC student citizenship).
- Richard Stallman, 1996 (re computer science).
- John Wanat, 1996 (re UIC academic freedom).
- Laurie Williams, 2002 (re pair programming).
- Phil Zimmermann, 1996 (re PGP).
Thanks to everyone who submitted an amicus brief:
- Marc Rotenberg, David L. Sobel,
Ivan K. Fong, Dawn C. Nunziato, and David W. Addis for
the Electronic Privacy Information Center,
the American Civil Liberties Union,
the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California,
the Center For Democracy and Technology,
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility,
the Economic Strategy Institute,
the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation,
Human Rights Watch,
the Independence Institute,
the International Information System Security Certification Consortium,
the Internet Mail Consortium,
the Internet Society,
the National Association of Manufacturers,
Privacy International,
the U.S. Public Policy Committee of the Association for Computing Machinery,
Whitfield Diffie,
Peter Neumann,
and Ronald Rivest.
- Garrett Epps for
himself,
the Silicon Valley Software Industry Coalition,
Keith Aoki,
Margreth Barrett,
James Boyle,
Peter Jaszi,
David Lange,
and Eugene Volokh.
- Brian Conboy, Michael H. Hammer, Andrew R. D'Uva, and Gunnar D. Halley for
Maynard Anderson,
James Bidzos,
National Computer Security Association,
Mark Rasch,
RSA Data Security,
Eugene Spafford,
and Ross Stapleton-Gray.
- J. Joshua Wheeler and Robert M. O'Neil for
the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression.
- Richard D. Marks, John M. Faust, Thomas S. Leatherbury, Scott Breedlove,
John R. Liebman, and Richard S. Berger for
the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Thanks to everyone who
pointed out dangers in the regulations,
pointed out loopholes and other stupidities,
reported results of interactions with the government,
or otherwise helped us all figure out what was actually going on.
Thanks to everyone who
showed up for court hearings,
wrote to Congress,
or otherwise told the world "We care!"
And thanks to everyone who said the same to me privately.
Thanks to everyone
who helped spread the word to the public and the press.
Thanks, in particular, to John Gilmore, Stanton McCandlish, and John Young
for converting tons of documents into easy-to-read web pages.
Finally, thanks to everyone who supported this case financially.
I have a separate page acknowledging donations.