RSA in perl illegal to export (Re: Junger et al.)

[Ernest Hua]

I still have a few of those shirts left (I ate the cost ... along with a
few copies of Secret Power).

If anyone wants to do this, I will be happy to donate the T-shirt (and
be an "arms" supplier).

In fact, one of the people who expressed an interest in buying the
T-shirt wanted to send one to Dave Letterman (Letterman was hot at the
time).  Did you ever do it?

Ern

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Chris Liljenstolpe [SMTP:cds at mcmurdo.gov]
	Sent:	Wednesday, July 08, 1998 3:31 PM
	To:	Adam Back; jim.burnes at ssds.com
	Cc:	Ernest Hua; egerck at laser.cps.softex.br;
cypherpunks at toad.com; cryptography at c2.net
	Subject:	Re: RSA in perl illegal to export (Re: Junger et
al.)

	Greetings,

		There are t-shirts out there with both human readable
and
	machine readable (bar code) versions of the RSA in 3 code....
Wear it
	when boarding an international flight....  They even state that
they
	are a munition and ITAR controlled in BIG letters on the back...


		Chris


	On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 11:04:44AM +0100, Adam Back wrote:
	> 
	> Jim Burnes writes:
	> > Obviously there is no difference between 10 lines of PERL
and
	> > 1500 lines of assembler (or machine code).  
	> 
	> One of Peter Junger's examples (I think used in the case) is
the RSA
	> in 2/3 lines.  He actually obtained the US export
administrations
	> written decisions on which of a small collection of titchy
programs
	> was exportable.  RSA in 3 lines of perl they stated was
illegal to
	> export.
	> 
	> So fun things with RSA are possible because they have decided
that it
	> is not exportable, so perhaps you could export it on a floppy,
or as
	> your .signature, with media cameras rolling, and try to get
yourself
	> arrested for willful violation of dumb export laws.
	> 
	> Adam
	> -- 
	> Have you exported RSA today? -->
http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/
	> 
	> print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo
"16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<>
	>
)]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc
`