this itar business had a huge chilling effect on the formative years of internet protocol design. public key was available at the time. here were alot of loud v

this itar business had a huge chilling effect on the formative years of internet protocol design. public key was available at the time. here were alot of loud voices in ietf clamoring for strong foundational security. The US position made it highly impractical to use, and may have cost us an effective and ubiquitous security/identity model.