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One key part is that the crypto wars were around export, lest we forget "PGP Source Code and Internals". If there was no international business, any-strength c
by WaitWaitWha 2y ago
One key part is that the crypto wars were around export, lest we forget "PGP Source Code and Internals".
If there was no international business, any-strength crypto would have been and could have been used.
- convolvatron 2y agothere was a huge chilling effect on both product and protocol design. In the 90s I had to fill out a form and submit it to RSA in order to get a copy of their library. Which I eventually got after waiting 6 months, but I had to agree not to redistribute it in any way. Efforts to design foundational cryptographic protocols were completely hamstrung by the spectre of ITAR and the real possibility that designs would have to US only. Right around the time that the US gave up, the commercial community was taking off and they weren't at all interested in further standardization except was creating moats for their business - which is why we're still stuck in the 90s as far at the network layer goes.
- rangestransform 2y agoAFAIK the Zimmerman case was quietly dropped instead of ruled Tinfoil hat: it was dropped to prevent exporting code being 1A protected as case law
- somebodythere 2y agoSeems not tinfoil and rather plausibly a pragmatic decision by the prosecution.
- rangestransform 2y agoWould be a good day to have that enshrined in case law, maybe the US government would let me work on rocket GNC if code can’t be export controlled at all
- 1oooqooq 2y agowhen did local prosecution got a training in international politics and commerce interests?
- somebodythere 2y agoFederal interests can easily tell the local prosecutor "hey, don't prosecute this, it risks setting bad precedent".