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Encryption was considered a weapon previously, which resulted in an export ban.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_...



No. Encryption was considered to be a munition. Wikipedia is being loose in its terminology and could benefit from some revision here.


Also resulted in lots of us having to lie on our Visa Waiver forms on entry to the US.


...and the parent post's argument was already made by xkcd: https://xkcd.com/504/


North Korea is qualified as a "rogue state," so it's still illegal to export encryption there.




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