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Re: [Cryptography] Fwd: [IP] RSA Response to Media Claims Regarding
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thierry Moreau)
Sat Dec 28 12:50:14 2013
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Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 12:42:32 -0500
From: Thierry Moreau <thierry.moreau@connotech.com>
To: Tom Mitchell <mitch@niftyegg.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAAMy4UTTCuueeEVORAyPiEvodJfMGrjsFo0O9Q-oATJ+TN9Kvg@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: Cryptography List <cryptography@metzdowd.com>,
Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com>, Bill Cox <waywardgeek@gmail.com>
Errors-To: cryptography-bounces+crypto.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@metzdowd.com
Tom Mitchell wrote:
>
> I think it is important that US ITAR legislation had astounding and strict rules
> about cryptography as a munition.
> One IPsec project at a largish TLA company was hobbled
> back to one
> engineer because the market was too small for the legal work required to
> deliver it.
I am of the opinion that this is precisely the greatest victory of ITAR
regimes (i.e. COCOM then Wassenaar): to shrink the market for sound IT
security solutions using cryptographic techniques to a point where this
industry segment would be essentially ineffective.
>
> Today the rules and players are different.
But due to "the power of the installed base," the above-mentioned
victory is still highly influential.
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