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Why have export controls for cryptography?
I've always heard someone justify the means for export restrictions with "it's for governmental control/spying". In most reasonable countries, the justice system asks people to adhere to the "spirit ...
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Export laws on the cloud (key size)
Do the U.S. export laws around AES-256 apply to applications hosted in the cloud?
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Can ECC be used without infringing on patents?
Can ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) be safely used without infringing on Certicom's patents?
I would like to make use of ECC in an embedded system to establish a secure channel. But, I am concerned ...
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Is strong cryptography legal across the internet?
In many countries strong cryptography is outlawed. That means you must store the data of your users in such a way, that government of that country can always decrypt it. And if you don't, you are a ...
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Can we still provide confidentiality when cryptography is outlawed?
In certain jurisdictions, use of cryptography by the private sector is limited: e.g. there are reports that in the UAE and other countries not all of the encryption capabilities of the BlackBerry are ...
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Is Steganography considered encryption and subject to USA export restrictions?
I have written an application for Apple's iOS which embeds messages in JPEG files using steganography (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography). For the purposes of this question lets assume ...
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Copyright issues with encryption algorithms
I'm developing application for Android/Java. Application is a kind of password manager, so I'm storing encrypted passwords under the hood of master password. There are number of encryption algorithms ...
