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    From Johann Beretta@21:1/5 to khelair@bismaninfo.hopto.org.remove on Fri Nov 3 01:50:51 2017
    On Thu, 4 Jul 2013 04:51:49 -0500, "Khelair" <khelair@bismaninfo.hopto.org.remove-sci-this> wrote:

    <snip>
    At this point the US government ended up reclassifying this encryption software
    as a munition and rendered it illegal for usage in the United States. New >versions of PGP were then released using the new, patented RSAREF encryption >algorithm.
    <snip>

    No.... the classified it as a munition to make exporting the program/code illegal..

    Had nothing to do with using the encryption within the United States

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