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[–] FutileRecipe 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

There are no legal restrictions on cryptography in the US

That's not what a quick search and Wikipedia says. To be fair, I didn't fact check all their references:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Export_of_cryptography_from_the_United_States

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

SuSE and RH have their own legal teams who have combed through all of this and have decided not to chance it. Personally, I wouldn’t base a significant part of the foundation of any product on something as fickle as a Supreme Court ruling, especially when the product is something major from a group like SuSE or RH.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

There isn't much to "chance". The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has the authority in the matter.

Some organizations just don't take no for an answer

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

On October 15, 2003, almost nine years after Bernstein first brought the case, the judge dismissed it and asked Bernstein to come back when the government made a "concrete threat".

It helps to actually read the wikipedia pages.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I did, that doesn't change anything