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How could that be relevant for more than a few more years? The world does not end with the US. Regardless of the ban, strong crypto would have been developed el
by anovikov 2y ago
How could that be relevant for more than a few more years? The world does not end with the US. Regardless of the ban, strong crypto would have been developed elsewhere, as open source, and proliferated to the point of making continuation of the ban impossible: by ~2005 or earlier, it will be either US closing off from global Internet becoming a digital North Korea of a sort, or allowing strong crypto.
- wmf 2y agoPopular OSes and browsers have almost entirely come from the US. If people had a choice between IE with weak crypto or Opera with strong crypto they absolutely would have chosen IE.
- amatecha 2y agoOn that note, OpenBSD is from Canada and thus not subject to crypto export restrictions (not that I even know what such restrictions are present in the US today, if any) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD