Encryption algorithms were illegal to manufacture/export without a license from a US governmental department...

[GtPrOjEcTX]

Encryption algorithms were illegal to manufacture/export without a license from a US governmental department until 4-5 years ago.

Why? What department made it so? Why did it change?

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

nada?

 

[FoBoT]

they didn't want enemies of the US to be able to encode stuff that our intelligence community couldn't break, at least they didn't want US companies/people giving it away

or something like that

 

[Staples]

^^^^^^^

That and when PGP came out and realized that they couldn't regulate it, the US Gov finally backed down.

 

[FoBoT]

the dude that made PGP was from sweden or somewhere like that? i think?

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
they didn't want enemies of the US to be able to encode stuff that our intelligence community couldn't break, at least they didn't want US companies/people giving it away

or something like that

so the goverment wanted a peak, to know how to decrypt it if need be.

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

which department made it illegal, and then lifted it?

edit: FBI and FINCEN (is that a department?) ?

 

[nick1985]

Originally posted by: GtPrOjEcTX
which department made it illegal, and then lifted it?

jo mamma


:beer:

 

[Bootprint]

Strong Encryption is still considered munitions and can not be exported to "Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria"


http://www.bxa.doc.gov/encryption/

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

I thought that was true. Thanks for the link.

I know France restricted exports of encryption before too, do they still?

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

d/p