[petre]

No, in the US the government just classified encryption as weapons unsuitable for export. A more clean approach, rather than think of the children shenigans, all while certain members of the royal family have ties with a convicted child trafficker and his wife.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

> in the US the government just classified encryption as weapons unsuitable for export.

... You realize that that hasn't been the case for ~20 years, right?

[humazed]

>... You realize that that hasn't been the case for ~20 years, right?

that's not true, try submitting an app to apple store, and you will get hit with a lot of Encryption Export Regulations prompts.

please see https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/complying...

>When you submit your app to TestFlight or the App Store, you upload your app to a server in the United States. If you distribute your app outside the U.S. or Canada, your app is subject to U.S. export laws, regardless of where your legal entity is based. If your app uses, accesses, contains, implements, or incorporates encryption, this is considered an export of encryption software, which means your app is subject to U.S. export compliance requirements, as well as the import compliance requirements of the countries where you distribute your app.

[petre]

Yes. I'm not blaming, it was a rather bureaucratic move though and it did not stop US citizens from using encryption, nor export. Tampering with the ECC crypto factors was much more ellegant.