Avatar of Vengeance@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 days agoUnder British and UK Legislation anyone using or developing end-to-end encryption is now a “hostile actor”lemmy.mlimagemessage-square177linkfedilinkarrow-up1987arrow-down110file-text
arrow-up1977arrow-down1imageUnder British and UK Legislation anyone using or developing end-to-end encryption is now a “hostile actor”lemmy.mlAvatar of Vengeance@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square177linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareJackbyDev@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·2 days agoEven 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
minus-squarefloofloof@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·15 hours agoI 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.
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
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.