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Re:We built a new GPS receiver engine by opencl on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @12:10PM (#23236470)
They indicate plans to sell hardware on Crowdsupply which is based in the US. Presumably this is going to be FPGA-based which brings up all the fun questions of how ITAR applies to software.

Would adding a speed restriction in their VHDL that could be trivially bypassed by patching out one line of code satisfy ITAR requirements?

AOSP has this sort of code in it (search for ITAR_SPEED_LIMIT): https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/...

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Re:We built a new GPS receiver engine by gsnedders on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @12:24PM (#23236713)
> Presumably this is going to be FPGA-based which brings up all the fun questions of how ITAR applies to software.

I mean there's plenty of prior art with open-source crypto implementations here.

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Re:We built a new GPS receiver engine by tezzer on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @04:33PM (#23239841)
Crypto is its own category in the ITAR, one whose impact decreased over time as events made the restrictions less relevant. Most crypto is now EAR not ITAR, but treated as a special category. I'm not sure the software classification lessons are going to apply.
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