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Re: New crypto regulations
- To: cypherpunks@toad.com
- Subject: Re: New crypto regulations
- From: daw@cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner)
- Date: 2 Jan 1997 13:39:23 -0800
- Newsgroups: isaac.lists.cypherpunks
- Organization: ISAAC Group, UC Berkeley
- References: <32cc13c3.83442324@kdn0.attnet.or.jp> <199612301517.KAA01543@pdj2-ra.F-REMOTE.CWRU.Edu>
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In article <199612301517.KAA01543@pdj2-ra.F-REMOTE.CWRU.Edu>,
Peter D. Junger <junger@pdj2-ra.F-REMOTE.CWRU.Edu> wrote:
>
> : Does this mean that if a journal published an article on some strong
> : non-key escrow encryption algorithm that included source code, it
> : could not later offer that same article on a CD-ROM collection? or
> : provide that same source code online?
>
> That is exactly what the new regulations seem to provide. An interesting
> question is what is the status of all those issues of Byte and Dr.
> Dobb's that do have cryptopraphic source code and that are currently
> available on the net. Or are there any such articles?
>
Here's one. Ian Goldberg and I wrote a Dr. Dobb's Journal article on
Netscape's insecure random number generation. It contained a few short
snippets of code that described how Netsape's PRNG seeding process
worked. I believe that they may fall under the category of 'cryptographic
source code'. And...guess what... DDJ in fact published the article
online at
http://www.ddj.com/ddj/1996/1996.01/wagner.htm
Here's a citation:
Ian Goldberg and David Wagner. "Randomness and the Netscape Browser".
Dr. Dobb's Journal, January 1996.