This is caught by US Export Controls!!! (Score 1)

I am a US citizen and wanted to do exactly the same thing. According to Julie Lever an Analyst at the DOC in the crypto export division, you need a license to do this (I'm in the process of obtaining one). I have servers in Panama I access via SSH. Even building SSH on them (d/l directly from Finland) is grey area. What she says is that _I_ doing the work constitute exporting encryption technology because I am a US citizen. I cannot even do the work if I live in Panama as long as I'm a US citizen.