Very lengthy, well written article about the history, political implications and principles of public key encryption. I am a big fan of this technology [1], an

Very lengthy, well written article about the history, political implications and principles of public key encryption. I am a big fan of this technology [1], and still hope that it will be more wide spread among citizens in a secure form. Like freedom of speech, information security is definitely an important pillar of the modern state and empowers citizens. Unfortunately, all attempts to introduce it to the masses and get it right from the security point of view have failed so far. It is a tough balancing act to get right [2]: freedom, convenience, safety - you seemingly can only have two of them. [1] e.g. in the form of https://www.gnupg.org/ https://www.gnupg.org/ [2] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/11/dan_geer_on_cyb.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/11/dan_geer_on_c...