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Re:The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source ... by zelon88 on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @01:32PM (#18294546)
As the author stated, encryption was export controlled for a long time. The legal fight was very intense. If I recall any encryption stronger than 40 bits needed a license to export outside of the USA until about 2000 or so.
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Re:The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source ... by PopeDotNinja on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @01:40PM (#18294622)
Yeah, I remember that being a thing in browsers. It was kind of odd to download a browser with 128-bit encryption that forbade me to distributing it to anyone outside of the USA.
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