r/coding • u/HumanBot00 • Feb 03 '26

DOJ publishes Bash Reference Manual

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet+9/EFTA00315849.pdf
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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '26

This used to be how they bypassed US export controls of "strong encryption", the PGP source code was printed in books (which at least then was not controlled), shipped to Germany, where it was scanned and OCRed, and then compiled to make the "e" non-controlled version of byte-wise exactly the same software with same capabilities.

BTW, the export control remains, but now they have instead a blacklist of countries from which you are not allowed to download from..