[Cryptography] eliminating manufacturer's ability to backdoor users

Peter Gutmann pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Tue Feb 23 19:51:21 EST 2016


Watson Ladd <watsonbladd at gmail.com> writes:

>On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 9:47 PM, Peter Gutmann <pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>> Jerry Leichter <leichter at lrw.com> writes:
>>
>>>What in the iPhone is illegal *today*?
>>
>> According to the Wassenaar control lists, about half the phone, if you take it
>> across a border without an export license.
>>
>> Also most laptops, desktop PCs, home video games, and other similar items.
>
>RTFA, in particular note 2 on cryptography. 

The crypto is irrelevant, it's all the other tech in there (hardware and
software) that's the problem, or at least that would be the problem if the
controls were enforced as written.

(They seem to have removed a large amount of the more obvious stupid that used
to be in there, frequency-hopping/spread-spectrum radio, SDR, DSPs, A/D and
D/A converters, it was a long list, but there's still quite a bit left).

Peter.


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