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Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:23:54 +1000
From: Esmond Pitt <esmond.pitt@bigpond.com>
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On 15/06/2011 1:43 AM, Roedy Green wrote:
>
> The US government does not allow American corporations to export
> software containing high security ciphers, even though the math is
> published and this creates employment opportunities outside the USA,
> e.g. for BouncyCastle. This puts US manufacturers at a disadvantage.

Those restrictions were lifted during the Clinton administration.