> It's difficult for Europe to trust anything made in America. It was for this reason that Richard Stallman encouraged Germans to make encryption software, the

> It's difficult for Europe to trust anything made in America. It was for this reason that Richard Stallman encouraged Germans to make encryption software, the import of which America allowed but the import of American encryption software in the Germany was illegal. This is why Werner Koch started gpg. Nitpicking but I think you got this part the wrong way around. The US had export restrictions on encryption including PGP so Europe had to create their own.