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it's still restricted, but not on the munitions list anymore: Legal challenges by Peter Junger and other civil libertarians and privacy advocates, the widesp
by alternize 12y ago
it's still restricted, but not on the munitions list anymore:
Legal challenges by Peter Junger and other civil libertarians and privacy advocates, the widespread availability of encryption software outside the U.S., and the perception by many companies that adverse publicity about weak encryption was limiting their sales and the growth of e-commerce, led to a series of relaxations in US export controls, culminating in 1996 in President Bill Clinton signing the Executive order 13026 transferring the commercial encryption from the Munition List to the Commerce Control List. Furthermore, the order stated that, "the software shall not be considered or treated as 'technology'" in the sense of Export Administration Regulations. This order permitted the United States Department of Commerce to implement rules that greatly simplified the export of commercial and open source software containing cryptography, which they did in 2000.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_the_United_States#PC_era http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_the...
- pronoiac 12y agoIt looks like most of the OpenSSL team[1] is outside the US, except Marquess, the businessman. It looks like OpenBSD is developed and released from Canada.[2] I tried reading the Wikipedia article you linked, and something from the Bureau of Industry and Security[3], and my eyes glazed over. I think the upshot is developing an open source crypto library in the US just won't work. [1] https://www.openssl.org/about/ https://www.openssl.org/about/ [2] http://www.openbsd.org/goals.html http://www.openbsd.org/goals.html [3] http://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/policy-guidance/encryption/encryption-faqs http://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/policy-guidance/encryption/...
- wbl 12y agoIt is possible: open-source code can be exported freely. See http://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/forms-documents/doc_view/328-flowchart-2 http://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/forms-documents/doc_view/32... for details. You just need to tell them where it is.
- shard972 12y agoDamn, I wanted my Dogecoins to be munitions.
- 0x0 12y agoAt least Apple makes you jump through a bunch of hoops by asking if your product contains crypto when you submit anything to the app stores. It's not exactly clear either if this applies even to apps that happen to pass a https url into a UIWebView.