Whoopsie!
Back to the drawing board Achmed!
Not sure it makes any difference. There are plenty of terrorists already in the country who would have access to PGP and other encryption techniques.
“I wonder how different things would be if we had not eliminated the encryption export rules a few years ago.”
Do you seriously believe that only US can produce encryption technology? Most of the recent improvements in encryption algorithms and technology have come from outside of US (Western Europe, now increasingly Eastern Europe and Russia and even China). Even in the US, the people who actually implement and invent the new stuff are increasingly immigrants. The company I work for is a major player in this field and most of the people who work with security algoritms are non-US citizens. More than half are also located outside of US.
This researcher doesn’t need to say that! That info should still remain secret! Now the enemy knows we analyzed it and made prouncements about it. Shoulda said we can’t figure it out! Leave them guessing!
Jeez! Some security!
Not a whit. Any competent programmer who can master a little number theory and doesn't care about US patents can implement RSA encryption, El Gamal encryption or the Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol, and any competent programmer even without a knowledge of number theory can implement any of the various strong private-key systems (or variants thereof).
If Computer World has it and they are testing it, it can’t be that good.
Absolutely none. Those rules were a product of Congress not understanding that writing laws against dissemination of publicly available information couldn't stop it from happening.
Ping...
Encrypt away...Someone is always watching....
From the Old Time Radio Show:
“Only The Shadow Knows”
it wouldn’t have made a difference. Americans are not the only ones who can write code.
>>Our encryption technology and web servers are helping Al-qaeda. I wonder how different things would be if we had not eliminated the encryption export rules a few years ago.<<
A lot of the effect of those rules was a brain drain that sent encryption research overseas. It only hurt lawful researchers.
A tool is just a tool. When PGP first became popular around the world various democracy movements praised it since it allowed them some protection from the death squads.
Yeah, cuz furriners are all too stoopid to do that complicated computer stuff unless they can crib notes from a real Amerikun.
Sheesh.
Given the ease of distribution over the internet such rules would be impossible to enforce.