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It looks like most of the OpenSSL team[1] is outside the US, except Marquess, the businessman. It looks like OpenBSD is developed and released from Canada.[2]

I tried reading the Wikipedia article you linked, and something from the Bureau of Industry and Security[3], and my eyes glazed over. I think the upshot is developing an open source crypto library in the US just won't work.

[1] https://www.openssl.org/about/

[2] http://www.openbsd.org/goals.html

[3] http://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/policy-guidance/encryption/...




It is possible: open-source code can be exported freely. See http://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/forms-documents/doc_view/32... for details. You just need to tell them where it is.




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