Please use this sig
- Please use this sig file. Add your own URL, caption, whatever.
- The US government wants to
ban programs such as this.
- Phil Z was facing possible
indictment
in the US for alleged involvment in exporting PGP from the US.
PGP implements the very same RSA public key algorithm. Recently
the US government dropped the charges without explanation.
<![CDATA[
-export-a-crypto-system-sig -RSA-3-lines-PERL
#!/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj
$/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1
lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/)
]]>
Please note that the US Government has provided a
written decision
to Peter Junger, a law professor in the US, stating that the above
program is illegal to export from the US in
electronic form.
While it would seem exceedingly unlikely that they would go after the
hundreds of US citizens who have already posted it to USENET / emailed
it across the US borders you can't say you haven't been warned.
Comments, html bugs to me
(Adam Back) at
<aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>