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Was publishing cryptography papers in open-access journals also illegal? Without such a ban it seems it would be very hard to stop the export of AI, as it's not particularly difficult to implement an AI algorithm from spec, just tedious; certainly much easier than implementing one's own crypto.

>illegal to provide them to non-us persons without a license

I wonder if in this case Git{hub|lab} would need the license, or the person uploading the code?



You couldn't export software implementing cryptography, but there wasn't any similar restriction on books about cryptography, even if the book contained detailed descriptions of the algorithms and the mathematics!


The PGP source code was published as a book to avoid this https://philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/BookPreface.html


The Darknet Diaries podcast has an episode on this called 'The Crypto Wars': https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/12


Wasn’t it also published as a T-shirt?


You are thinking of the RSA perl t-shirt.





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