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You quote that like Wassenaar is somehow a different thing to the US restrictions, but the US is a member of Wassenaar and ITAR is the USs implementation of it.

(So yes, to the broader point that all the Wassenaar countries implement very similar restrictions).




I was responding to the poster who wasn't sure if Europe had similar restrictions. Each country implements those agreements in unique ways, so my point was that everyone's implementation was basically pointless.

And, of course, the US's treatment of cryptography as munitions predates Wassenaar (the PGP case was previous to it, for instance), not sure about how everyone in Europe handled it prior to the agreement.




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