I was referring to a mainly historic, very strict export ban that categorizes cryptographic software as munitions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_crypt

I was referring to a mainly historic, very strict export ban that categorizes cryptographic software as munitions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_in_the_United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_in_the_U... HTTPS was crippled, since Netscape shipped only 40-bit RC4 internationally.[1] PGP's source code was printed so it would fall under First Amendment protections, since binaries weren't legal for export.[2] (See also DJB's Bernstein v. United States)[3] OpenBSD/OpenSSH is still based in Canada to avoid being subject to the laws. -------------- 1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_in_the_United_States#PC_era http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_in_the_U... 2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Criminal_investigation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Criminal_in... and http://www.pgpi.org/pgpi/project/scanning/ http://www.pgpi.org/pgpi/project/scanning/ 3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States 4 http://www.openbsd.org/crypto.html http://www.openbsd.org/crypto.html