The software was classed as munitions and one needed an arms dealer’s license to publish it, including online. The creator of PGP published the full source code as a book, as these are covered under first amendment rights.

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    The whole thing reads like this is weak encryption that doesn’t actually work and that is what they wanted people to have for that false sense of security. That’s wild