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The Doctor drwho at virtadpt.net
Fri Jun 25 20:39:45 BST 2021
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On Thursday, June 24th, 2021 at 15:05, Chris McGowan <cmcgowan9990 at gmail.com> wrote:
Reminds me of the the Munition T-Shirt that protested the (frankly
stupid) encryption export laws in the US. (By the way, those are
partially still in place...)
ITAR has gotten way less of a pain in the ass since 2000. It still sucks to do thepaperwork but it's 10 pages now and not 120 and a bunch of phone calls with theState Department.
tl;dr the shirt had a 3 line implementation of the RSA algorithm on it
as a Perl one-liner and a machine readable barcode representing that
same program. Technically, under the law at the time (circa 1996), that
made the shirt a "munition". No, I'm not kidding and yes it was stupid.
That was around the time that 2600 was also selling t-shirts that had the functionaldiagram for DES to whoever had $25us to spend. :)
It would be neat to have some sort of shirt that had a machine-readable
minimal gemini server (or client) printed on it, but I think the TLS
requirement would make that nearly impossible (max bytes for a QR code
is ~4k).
Depends on which TLS library you link in.
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