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Actually, the US still partially restrict it (I as a German had to file dozens of forms with the US DoD due to that already), but you are correct, TLS up to 1.3 is entirely public worldwide.

But obviously, by 2000, many sites were already using the South Korean crypto, and deprecating it would be just as complicated as deprecating TLS 1.0 or SHA1 TLS Certificates in the US. The browser vendors consider that impossible — the South Korean situation is just as problematic.




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