US crypto export laws relaxed

The US export laws were relaxed in 1999. Crypto software can exported with minimal restrictions now. So the t-shirt is at this time legal to export as is the perl-rsa signature.

The rest of this page is of historic value only. It may be that the RSA sig played some small part in the eventual relaxation of the US crypto export laws.

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The US government wants to ban programs such as this.
Phil Z was facing possible indictment in the US for alleged involvment in exporting PGP from the US. PGP implements the very same RSA public key algorithm. Recently the US government dropped the charges without explanation.

-export-a-crypto-system-sig -RSA-3-lines-PERL #!/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/)

Note that the US Government has provided a written decision to Peter Junger, a law professor in the US, stating that the above program is illegal to export from the US in electronic form. While it would seem exceedingly unlikely that they would go after the hundreds of US citizens who have already posted it to USENET / emailed it across the US borders you can't say you haven't been warned.

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