alt Hacker NewsWell the thing that comes to mind for me was the US gov classing encryption as a munition and placing it under export controls
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mitxela • yesterday at 11:28 AM
Still is. It's still illegal to export cryptography without permission.
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That was more early-mid 1990s, and not so much late-90s and early 2000s, when the NIST/NSA issues came about (from what I understand)