This shouldn't have to be said but apparently it does. I don't think conspiracy to launder money and circumvent sanctions magically becomes legal just because one ingredient of doing that is publication of math.
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The developers of Tornado Cash simply published open source code. It's decentralized and they don't have any control or involvement in how it's used. A developer was arrested for writing and publishing the code. It still works and isn't shut down in any way despite bad reporting.
Tornado Cash, Zcash shielded transactions, Monero, etc. provide an alternative to having all your financial transactions publicly visible. They support view keys which can be used to prove where the money you put into it went if you need to do that for compliance.
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How is this different from writing and publishing a virus/worm, which AIUI people have been arrested and prosecuted for even if they didn't engage in offensive use themselves but wrote it for the purpose of others to use to cause harm?
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The purpose of the code is sending money without publicly publishing all the details about it. You can share view keys with an entity that you're required to share the details of the transactions. Gives them proof of the origin and destination of the money which went through it.
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