US laws place restrictions on the export of defense articles, which includes some types of cryptographic software. PGP and ssh fall into this category. To prevent anyone from taking unnecessary legal risks, certain Debian GNU/Linux packages are only available from a non-US site: ftp://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/pub/debian-non-US/ A list of mirror sites is at ftp://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/pub/debian-non-US/README.mirrors