Activism Against Encryption Export Regulations
Raph played a small part in precipitating the relaxation of the US crypto export legislation, by filing for a Commodities Jurisdiction Request for a t-shirt containing an implementation of the RSA encryption algorithm, in four lines of Perl. At the time (1995), the code on the t-shirt would have been regarded as a munition by the United States and other NATO governments.
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