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<p>I have been thinking about how one could develop crytography software without
going to the lengths of crossing the border whenever you want to code<a href="http://enetdown.org//tag/security/#fn:provos" id="fnref:provos" class="footnote">1</a>.
Perhaps one could do as was done during the
<a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/">DeCSS</a> legal threat and publish
the algorithm as <a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Baccash/">pseudocode</a> and
then apply a transformation that can be compiled? Would this be illegal?</p>
<p>Obviously, I think the whole issue is more of a threat to our
liberty<a href="http://enetdown.org//tag/security/#fn:franklin" id="fnref:franklin" class="footnote">2</a> than national security.</p>
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<li id="fn:provos"><p><a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/">Niels Provos</a> had to do this by taking road trips to Canada. Read more <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20028623-245.html">here</a> and <a href="http://www.openssh.org/history.html">here</a>.<a href="http://enetdown.org//tag/security/#fnref:provos" class="reversefootnote"> ↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:franklin"><p>This brings to mind the quote from Benjamin Franklin: “They who
can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve
neither liberty nor safety.”.<a href="http://enetdown.org//tag/security/#fnref:franklin" class="reversefootnote"> ↩</a></p></li>
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