Can anyone help jog my memory?
I seem to remember that a rather popular encryption tool from the 90's being developed by a US company/person/team but the algorithms for the encryption itself being written in Finland or Sweden or somewhere, specifically to get around needing a license to export a US product containing "strong encryption" by making sure it wasn't a "US product". There was some media hysteria about this, and the CIA were particularly annoyed.
If I'm right remembering this, it kinda blows this chap's rather weak argument out of its already quite shallow water.
Can anyone remember the specifics of what I'm blathering about? :-)
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