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When Debian decided to incorporate crypto code in main (before, a "non-us" section was dedicated to that), it became necessary to declare the export. So they printed descriptions of the software and mailed it to the Department of Commerce:

https://ftp-master.debian.org/crypto-in-main/ (with pictures of course)

We no longer do this because they didn't like the volume of mail they were getting :)

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