Why create an international PGP version?
PGP was originally created inside the USA, but eventually spread to the rest of the world despite the US Export Regulations which controlled export of strong cryptography. PGP 5.0i (released in 1997) was the first PGP version that was legally available outside USA/Canada, because the program was exported as printed books and then scanned and OCRed to make the code available in electronic form.
