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Under British and UK Legislation anyone using or developing end-to-end encryption is now a “hostile actor” (thelemmy.club)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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Surveillance strategies in the UK and Israel often go global

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[–] 18 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Even the US used to ban the export of strong encryption algorithms. You used to have to download the stronger encryption algorithms separately. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Cryptography_Extension

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    I remember in the 1990s when you went to download Netscape you could only use the 40-bit encryption if you were in Europe, not the 128-bit encryption people in the USA could use.

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