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by Ded7xSEoPKYNsDd 3863 days ago
It made some sense at the time the law was conceived. SSL was crippled to uselessness by US export restrictions. IE 6 had a monopoly. So they built their own much more secure encryption (using ActiveX to plug into IE) and mandated its use for everything that matters.

The incompetence was in mandating a certain implementation instead of writing a technology-neutral law requiring a certain security level.

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Interesting! So bad actions by the US gov led to bad results for US companies....
Bad actions by the US gov led to bad workarounds by other govs