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Re:NSO Group's iPhone Zero-Days used against a UAE Human Rig... by avian on Thursday August 25, 2016 @03:17PM (#12361659)
Debian documents mention that "BXA revised the provisions of the EAR governing cryptographic software" in October 2000. Debian no longer has separate non-us repositories for crypto because of that.

https://www.debian.org/legal/cryptoinmain

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Re:NSO Group's iPhone Zero-Days used against a UAE Human Rig... by makomk on Thursday August 25, 2016 @04:31PM (#12362242)
Open source software is now basically exempt from the crypto export restrictions, which is why Debian doesn't need separate non-US repositories for it anymore. As far as I know closed-source software is still restricted.
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