17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
It might be best not to develop encryption software in the US. You might enjoy working on encryption, but if export control makes it is hard for the whole world-wide free software community to take advantage of your work, it would be better to work on something else not subject to export control, and leave encryption to people outside the US. There are plenty of people in other countries interested in working on encryption. The GNU replacements for PGP and SSH are being written outside the US, by people who are not US citizens. We will import them to the US, but we will never need to export them.