I was responding to the poster who wasn't sure if Europe had similar restrictions. Each country implements those agreements in unique ways, so my point was that

I was responding to the poster who wasn't sure if Europe had similar restrictions. Each country implements those agreements in unique ways, so my point was that everyone's implementation was basically pointless. And, of course, the US's treatment of cryptography as munitions predates Wassenaar (the PGP case was previous to it, for instance), not sure about how everyone in Europe handled it prior to the agreement.