In article <199612301517.KAA01543@pdj2-ra.F-REMOTE.CWRU.Edu>,
Peter D. Junger
: 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.