On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 4:32 AM, Alec Muffett <alec.muff...@gmail.com> wrote: > Perry: plasma physics is wildly OT but I believe the relevance will be > obvious to those who remember the crypto wars, especially when they hit the > fifth paragraph: >> >> It’s a difficult subject: many people I interviewed felt Roth showed >> blatant disregard for the law — he was warned his work fell under the State >> Department’s munitions list — but they expressed deep frustration with the >> ambiguity of the laws.
Hypothetically, if I were to write an open source library or application involving crypto, I'd send the source and docn through an anonymizing remailer to someone overseas who could then put it on appropriate websites. Or I'd go through a web anonymizer and post on appropriate sites myself. Time was, hypothetically, that I'd anonymously put source on alt.* Usenet groups, but they're dead in the US. Even with relaxed interpretation of the crypto export laws, anyone in the US would be a fool to rely on that interpretation. Never never never put your name on publicly available crypto unless you've jumped through all the hoops written into the law. (And I wouldn't do so even then.) Regards, SRF -- Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoscet. -- Arnaud-Amaury, 1209 --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majord...@metzdowd.com