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Re:As Feds Demand the Keys, Preparing for the Death of Publi... by rdtsc on Friday July 26, 2013 @12:09AM (#6106539)
Exactly that was my point. It was only 20 year ago. It was declassified as munition it can be reclassified as munitions pretty easily as well.

> Before taking the claims at face value it's good to do a bit of background research.

It also good to read and understand the whole comment before replying. I didn't say it is illegal (in US, it is in other countries) I said it is not an unreasonably hard step to take.

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Re:As Feds Demand the Keys, Preparing for the Death of Publi... by a3_nm on Friday July 26, 2013 @05:41AM (#6107340)
> It was declassified as munition it can be reclassified as munitions pretty easily as well.

As any browser has to integrate some sort of public-key cryptography support to use HTTPS, and as HTTPS is pretty useful for things like sending your credit card number over an insecure channel, I very much doubt that the genie could be put back in the bottle now.

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Re:As Feds Demand the Keys, Preparing for the Death of Publi... by anigbrowl on Friday July 26, 2013 @02:33AM (#6106917)
I read your whole comment, I just don't agree with you. It would be wholly impractical to reclassify PGP as munitions considering its ubiquitous availability. It got declassified in the first place because there was strong legal precedent supporting the publication of the algorithm in book form. I think your fears are unreasonable.
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