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While what you say is true, OpenBSD is merely based in Canada by dint of Theo de Raadt residing there and being the project lead. Being that open source is more

While what you say is true, OpenBSD is merely based in Canada by dint of Theo de Raadt residing there and being the project lead. Being that open source is more or less borderless, even if he were told to beg off developing crypto, the code is out there. Ditto every other open source crypto project. The beauty of open source is that it can be inspected. Pandora's Box and all that... If people want to communicate using encryption, they will do so. Maybe not with today's algorithms and implementations, but they will continue on. OTPs, new algorithms, hiding stuff in plain sight, etc. I think steganography is too obvious and too easily discovered.

18pfsmt 7y ago
Canada has no power in the world. They are our surrogate. OBSD is in Canada because that's where de Raadt lives.
18pfsmt 7y ago
You people are such pansies. We could take you on all day long. I'm in Denver. Bring it. I will take you on the Colorado River, and if you say anti freedom stuff, I will drown you in the river. Try it out.
- dang 7y ago
  Come on, please keep HN free of this. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - 18pfsmt 7y ago
    Sorry, man. I was drinking beers. Anti-freedom people make me a bit crazy. It's difficult for me to see so much hate on HN.
- masonic 7y ago
  "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!"