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I knew about the previous cryptography restrictions, but I also knew that the Supreme Court overruled them by ruling (as I understand it) that “code is speech”.

I knew about the previous cryptography restrictions, but I also knew that the Supreme Court overruled them by ruling (as I understand it) that “code is speech”. I’ll have to check out the other links though

tankenmate 4y ago
This brings back memories of a t-shirt I had that had big red letters on it "Export Controlled" and an implementation of RSA in perl on it.
- Theodores 4y ago
  #!/usr/local/bin/perl -s-- -export-a-crypto-sardine -RSA-6-line-PERL-fish '\~. __......--------~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-------....____ \ ~.__---~';($k,$n)=@ARGV;$m=unpack(H.$w,$m."\0"x$w),$_=`echo "[o~~-._ \ ]s!16do$w 2+4Oi0$d*-^1[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*La1=z\U$n%0]SX$k"[$m*]"\E[ ~. / ]s!szlXx++p"|dc`,s/^.|\W//g,print pack('H*',$_)while read(STDIN,$m," .' / .-~~--.._" +($w=2*$d-1+length($n||die"$0 [-d] k n\n")&~1)/2);' __..-~ ,/.~ ~~~~----........._______________________.......-----~~'
schoen 4y ago
Not the Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit in a subsequently-withdrawn opinion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States (Because the opinion was withdrawn, it's "persuasive" but not "binding".)
- LionTamer 4y ago
  Good catch