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I read your whole comment, I just don't agree with you. It would be wholly impractical to reclassify PGP as munitions considering its ubiquitous availability. It got declassified in the first place because there was strong legal precedent supporting the publication of the algorithm in book form. I think your fears are unreasonable.


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