[Cryptography] Laws and cryptography

2013-09-11 Thread Grégory Alvarez
Hello, Over the past year I was in contact with different cryptographers (I was designing a new symmetric algorithm) and they all told me in order to publish it no governmental authorization was needed. They also told me that they publish paper all the time without having an authorization. How

Re: [Cryptography] Laws and cryptography

2013-09-11 Thread John Gilmore
> ... the Wassenaar Arrangement clearly says that > material, software and technology need an authorization to be exported / > published. > > What is actually the status of the law about cryptography and publishing > new algorithms ? Is the cryptographer that publish a paper without > governmental