The first commercially supported HTTPS server was classified as munitions

Post #441,364 by crazy 4/16/22 7:27:41 AM 4/16/22 7:27:41 AM Reply	The first commercially supported HTTPS server was classified as munitions If you wanted a secure server you had to build it yourself and at that point it became illegal because you were using the patented algorithms that were only commercially available in one server. Apache via a particular vendor who licensed the cryptography libraries and at that point you had to sign all kinds of documents saying you wouldn't export it.
Post #441,384 by static 4/18/22 6:03:11 AM 4/18/22 6:03:11 AM Reply	I had an RSA t-shirt for a while. Back when RSA cryptography was prohibited from being exported from the US. I never tried to take it into and then out of the US, though. Didn't want that fight at the border! Thought you might be amused to know that. Wade.
Post #441,386 by rcareaga 4/18/22 7:07:02 PM 4/18/22 7:07:02 PM Reply	This goes back to the late seventies at least I remember reading an account, then, of a mathematician who’d been scheduled to present a paper at a conference. The NSA intercepted him—because the maths he was speaking of could have been employed to devise (then) unbreakable encryptions—and forbade him to appear, threatening a lengthy prison sentence if he defied them. cryptically,

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