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		jdhopeunique on July 9, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: EFF: forced disclosure of encryption password viol... Certainly the export of strong encryption technology was illegal, but the domestic use was not as far as I'm aware. Which law made strong encryption illegal?

nl on July 9, 2011 | [–]

Strong encryption was never illegal, but there was speculation that the Clipper chip[1] was the first step towards making it so.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip

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