The more things change... This is a similar debate we had 20 years ago, when people were fighting against the government who wanted to limit encryption to 56-b

The more things change... This is a similar debate we had 20 years ago, when people were fighting against the government who wanted to limit encryption to 56-bit DES. Stronger algorithms were not allowed (and then they acquiesced and allowed stronger keys to be used within the US only, unless you applied for special licenses). But you could print out the same encryption algorithms as a book or even a t-shirt and it would be totally legal and exportable. The government was saying that they were protecting us, but really it did nothing. It was ridiculous and we had a few years of relative peace on the encryption front until this whole faux-terrorist debacle.