Re: I would think that the situation is simple
You describe the very battle the US government attempted to fight back in the 1980s and 90s: the early days of modern cryptography.
I don't remember just when they gave up that battle (sometime around the turn of the century), but I do recollect it was standard that you'd have to go to a non-US download site for a crypto-enabled version of anything, and that US-based organisations had to leave crypto to non-US parties: hence for example early SSL versions of Apache from Ben Laurie in the UK using an OpenSSL predecessor from Eric Young in Oz. Unless you were prepared to do long legal battle with the US govt!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
