List of versions, and explanations of how it works here

PERL HACKERS: The quest for most diminutive munitions program

How to use the program

The T-shirt of the sig

The above code on a T-shirt. Get your munitions-T here. This T-shirt used to be technically illegal to export from the US.

The cartoon of the t-shirt of the sig

Dr Fun cartoon about the shirt

How to become an Arms Trafficker

Become an Arms-Trafficker in one easy step with this great way to register your protest of ITAR by Vince Cate. Just click to submit the form and join in the protest. Lots of excellent links. Have you exported RSA today? Includes an option to email a protest letter to US president.

The tattoo of the sig

Richard White <maldoror@pacificnet.net> has a tattoo of the rsa .sig on his fore arm.

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Cancer Omega <comega@sekurity.org> has a tattoo on his chest.

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James Melvin <jmelvin2@bellsouth.net> has a tattoo on his arm.

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Guess that's the end of any foreign trips for them :-)

Fun with HTML

hypertext reference with the sig in the URL

Media appearances

(label) New York Times by Peter Lewis (US)

(sig)Computer Shopper by Charlie Stross (UK)

(sig) New Scientist by Wendy Grossman (UK)

(shirt) Wired (magazine, US)

(shirt) Canal+ TV show Nulle Part Alleurs (France)

(shirt) Nova magazine (France)

(sig, shirt) Planette Internet magazine (France)

(shirt) BBC TV, the Learning Zone (UK)

Pictures of the t-shirt in the media

Political/legal background

Why it was illegal to export this 3 line program from the US

That weird beast which was the US ITAR crypto restrictions (some aspects still remain after the crypto liberalization)

Phil Zimmermann, author of PGP was the subject of a grand jury investigation for allegedly violating ITAR.

Jerome Thorel <jt@freenix.fr>'s page on the sig and shirt in the context of the French laws on encryption.

Phil Karn is challening the constitutionality of ITAR in court with the amusing Applied Cryptography disk case.

Other hacks using the perl-rsa code

Other diminutive crypto hacks