[guardian-dev] Crypto export regulations for apps on Google Play

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

There is a page on guardianproject.info somewhere that we email to the US Gov.

.hc

str4d wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have been developing the I2P Android and Bote apps for some time
> now, and am aiming to publish them in the Google Play store. But both
> apps involve cryptography (I2P at the network transport layer, Bote
> for encrypted email), and I know little about crypto export
> regulations (US or otherwise). The US export regulations have not been
> an issue for us before, because the apps are publicly developed and
> hosted outside the US.
> 
> I know there are several Guardian Project apps (and others on this ML)
> already on Google Play that will have encountered these issues before
> (Orbot, ChatSecure, TextSecure).
> 
> - What was your experience with getting published?
> - How did you comply with the crypto export regulations for open
> source software (which are still not clear to me, the website Google
> linked to is not easy to comprehend)?
> - Are there countries that you cannot publish to, or where you have
> had trouble doing so?
> - What advice can you give to developers of new apps using crypto?
> 
> str4d
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