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> It started at Columbia University as a natural by-product of an unnatural union: a former hacker placed in a room with a cryptographer, both given ample time
by woliveirajr 9y ago
> It started at Columbia University as a natural by-product of an unnatural union: a former hacker placed in a room with a cryptographer, both given ample time with which to contemplate the dystopia of tomorrow.
1. put together hacker and cryptographer
2. ????
3. profit.
- CapacitorSet 9y agoI find it weird that a cryptographer was required. I'm no cryptographer, but I know by rule-of-thumb that AES with a randomly-generated key will do the job just fine.
- woliveirajr 9y agoThe answer is a few lines below: this was around 1995, when knowledge about crypto was still very smaller (or not spread as it is today).
- otakucode 9y agoYeah, at the time most writing about crypto was about how it was a munition and illegal to export, and about Phil Zimmerman getting hassled at airports.