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You couldn't export software implementing cryptography, but there wasn't any similar restriction on books about cryptography, even if the book contained detaile

You couldn't export software implementing cryptography, but there wasn't any similar restriction on books about cryptography, even if the book contained detailed descriptions of the algorithms and the mathematics!

justincormack 8y ago
The PGP source code was published as a book to avoid this https://philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/BookPreface.html https://philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/BookPreface.html
- tapland 8y ago
  The Darknet Diaries podcast has an episode on this called 'The Crypto Wars': https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/12 https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/12
- tclancy 8y ago
  Wasn’t it also published as a T-shirt?
  - wbl 8y ago
    You are thinking of the RSA perl t-shirt.