U.S. authorities investigated Philip Zimmermann for about three years over the possible export of PGP under rules that treated strong encryption as munitions.

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"U.S. authorities investigated Philip Zimmermann for about three years over the possible export of PGP under rules that treated strong encryption as munitions."

This is the hard factual core underneath the "smuggling nukes" joke - PGP distribution triggered a federal investigation under unusually strict encryption-export rules.

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Source title U.S. CLOSES INVESTIGATION IN COMPUTER PRIVACY CASE

Source authors Elizabeth Corcoran

Source year 1996

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