[Cryptography] Proposed US ITAR changes would require prepublication approval for most crypto research

[Adrian McCullagh]

Dear All,




I with 4 colleagues of mine (3 at the Queensland University of Technology (Cryptographers all)and one from the University of Queensland (Legal E-commerce researcher) have been working on a paper dealing with the Australian Defence Trade Control Act which corresponds to the proposed US ITAR changes.




Without giving everything away on our forthcoming paper, it appears to me that if this type of regulation had been in place in Germany in 1938, then it is highly likely that Einstein would never have read the Hahn - Strassmann paper dealing with splitting a uranium atom.  That paper written in 1938 (December I believe) was read by Einstein in March 1939 and it directly lead to Einstein sending a letter to Roosevelt, which in turn resulted in 1942 to the establishment of the Manhattan project.  Now if NAZI Germany had restricted that publication NAZI Germany could have developed the bomb itself which could have completely altered the outcome.




Basically, if regimes like the DCTA/ITAR rules are expanded then it works both ways and there could be a stifling of publication research due to bureaucratic mishandling.  Though it could assist in the spy business as in the cold war.






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From: alfiej at fastmail.fm
Sent: ‎Wednesday‎, ‎10‎ ‎June‎ ‎2015 ‎1‎:‎54‎ ‎PM
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Snap, from Australia:

    http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/dangerous-minds-are-maths-teachers-australias-newest-threat-20150608-ghira9.html

    "Australian academics who teach mathematics may need to run new
    ideas by the Department of Defence before sharing them or risk
    imprisonment.

    Some academics are set to become much more familiar with the
    department's Defence Export Control Office (DECO), a unit that
    enforces the Defence Trade Control Act 2012, Australia's end of a
    2007 pact with the US and UK over defence trade.

    Until recently, DECO only regulated physically exported weapons and
    so-called "dual use" items such as encryption, computing hardware
    and biological matter.

    However in March the act was updated to include "intangible supply",
    which is intended to prohibit the transfer of knowledge from
    Australia that could be used to produce weapons."

Alfie

On Tue, Jun 9, 2015, at 05:36 PM, pete wrote:
> Proposed US ITAR changes. New regs, for comment, not yet in law or
> in force.
>
> http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/nra-gun-blogs-videos-web-forums-threatened-by-new-obama-regulation/article/2565762
>
> www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2015-06-03/pdf/2015-12844.pdf
>
>
> Actually, it says, for the first time explicitly, that publishing
> widely on the internet would be enough to put data into the
> public domain
> [000]. Sounds good?
>
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