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Re:The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source ... by michaelmrose on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @01:47PM (#18294689)
Pretty sure this isn't accurate. I thought the government dropped their lawsuit against PGP in the 90s.
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Re:The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source ... by aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @02:09PM (#18294885)
U.S. non-military exports are controlled by Export Administration Regulations (EAR), a short name for the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Title 15 chapter VII, subchapter C.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...

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Re:The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source ... by michaelmrose on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @03:36PM (#18295636)
From your own link "The export of cryptographic technology and devices from the United States was severely restricted by U.S. law until 1992, but was gradually eased until 2000;"

The software was capable of strong encryption it was restricted by being paid for.

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Re:The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source ... by octosphere on Thursday October 25, 2018 @09:22AM (#18300670)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto-anarchism
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Re:The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source ... by StavrosK on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @01:52PM (#18294722)
Yeah, my brain said "18 years ago? Yeah, that was the nineties" and I didn't realize it was 2000, although the shareware version might have been developed much earlier.

Also the lawsuit was against Phil Zimmermann himself, not PGP.

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