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Before most of our time, but my understanding is that the past restrictions on cryptography research and export were reasonably effective? Yes they were dislik
by kmod 4y ago
Before most of our time, but my understanding is that the past restrictions on cryptography research and export were reasonably effective?
Yes they were disliked and probably with good reason, but just mentioning it as a counterpoint that perhaps it is possible. You could have made a similar argument that anyone with pen and paper could do cryptography
Personally I think there's no way to be sure other countries aren't doing it, so perhaps it will continue in some government controlled way
- nradov 4y agoThere was never any real legal restriction on cryptography research. There used to be US export controls on cryptography implementations, and those were fairly effective on US based companies and open-source developers. But that was totally pointless because it generally had no power over foreigners. It just put US companies at a competitive disadvantage for no benefit.