This comes up often, so just to reiterate. This law only ever affected American citizens. It's why products like PuTTy had warnings about not being allowed to use the product unless you were American, the developers were protecting their own asses. As a European (or Mexican, Australian, Japanese, etc) citizen you could obviously use the product without repercussions, the developer just had to make an effort to not make it accessible.

And, as mentioned by OP, these restrictions were greatly relaxed ages ago to only really affect DoD and US govt specific encryptions.