Restrictions on the import of cryptography: Difference between revisions

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* Cryptography may increase levels of privacy within the country beyond what the government wishes.

* Citizens can anonymously communicate with each other, preventing any external party from monitoring them.

* Encrypted transactions may impeteimpede external entities to control the conducting of business.

* Imported cryptography may have [[Backdoor_(computing)|backdoors]] or security holes, intentional or not, which allow foreigners to spy on persons using the imported cryptography; therefore the use of cryptography is restricted to that which the government thinks is safe, or which it develops itself.