Questions tagged [cryptography]
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What is the law regarding declaration of cryptology services and tools?
The French Prosecutor has released details of the investigation resulting in Pavel Durov's arrest, which ends with these three points:
Providing cryptology services aiming to ensure confidentiality ...
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Which jurisdictions require suppliers of software for encrypted communication to provide source code to the authorities?
It appears that in France, the supply of software which enables encrypted communication is only allowed provided that the government sees the source code. Article 30(III) of the "Law No. 2004-575 ...
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Are hash values of a copyrighted or trademarked content still subject to the copyright/trademark of the original content?
If I were to reproduce a large amount of text (e.g. from a book), generate a hash value of it, and then use the hash value in e.g. the source code of a software (as an integer, that has to be ...
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Does online business, only using crypto currency have collect a tax bill before they can release funds back to an individual?
Online platform company, invest small amount of funds to earn a commission by reviewing items. If an item becomes to expensive you account goes negative and you have to deposit money to clear to ...
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Crypto currencies, gambling, copyrights [closed]
I am a programmer and i have been offered the possibility to work for someone on the other side of the world to write a crypto program that would allow users to gamble their crypto currencies.
The ...
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What can someone do when scammed in the crypto world? How to report the scam and recover your crypto?
Do the police work against scammers and fraudster in the crypto world?
How can someone report to law enforcement a fraud in crypto space?
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International Cybercrime Based in China. Who's Jurisdiction is it?
Quick question... I got my crypto wallet hacked. I live in Canada. Offender lives in China. After the theft, he deposited the money into Huobi, whose HQ is also in China. I did some preliminary ...
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Is it legal to make encryption breaking technology public?
Much of our critical infrastructure relies on encryption as the bedrock of its security. Encryption, however, is a practically a "very hard" mathematical problem that will take eternity to ...
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Do your gains from Crypto sold within a year in Germany raise your overall tax rate, or do they get taxed at your pre gains income tax rate?
I sold some of my crypto within the one year holding period in Germany. Crypto hodled for more than a year in Germany is tax free (neither Capital Gains or Income Tax).
I am a musician and only earn ...
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Conflict between data protection laws and import export laws regarding cryptography [closed]
Main question:
Cryptography laws restrict import of cryptography however data protection laws demand it. Which laws prevails?
Background:
Under the Wassenaar Arrangement going many countries control ...
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Can a person hack bitcoin private keys and legally claim the bitcoins for himself?
First, some background knowledge — bitcoins are a form of cryptocurrency that can be stored in "addresses". Each bitcoin address is linked to a specific private key. To access bitcoins in a specific ...
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Can a one-time-pad provide legal immunity - (make data inadmissible) -?
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This question is quite niche, I am not sure if this stack is the most relevant place, please inform me if there is a better place for it.
To explain the question:
I am asking if, a ...
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Do Bitcoin nodes need consent to store EU citizen's personal data?
The Bitcoin blockchain stores data about bitcoin users. This includes:
There bitcoin address, which is linkable to their identity via blockchain analysis
Transactions they have made
This would seem to ...
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Can this scheme be used to avoid forced disclosure?
Summary: Possible way to avoid the requirements of giving away the decryption key. Will this work?
Many countries have laws forcing citizens to decrypt their private data if they are being suspected ...
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Is exporting software with cryptographic functions legal in the United Kingdom?
IANAL (I am not a lawyer). I am a programmer and I want to make software with OpenSSL functions or even my own implementation of cryptographic algorithms, such as MD5.
However, I am worried that I ...
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