This is such a weird take, considering the reality how the NSA mass spying on Germans, and even Merkel, is quite legal and has been for many decades [0]. So wh

This is such a weird take, considering the reality how the NSA mass spying on Germans, and even Merkel, is quite legal and has been for many decades [0]. So while NATO forces are really big on supporting "strong crypto" for their own practical needs, what they were not really big on is supporting strong privacy rights for them West German people, as that would just "complicate" finding all those Communist spies and sympathizers. Who were suspected to be everywhere, as split Germany was pretty much the main battlefield of the covert cold war. That's why the West German G-10 law was specifically modified [1] at the request of the NSA [2] to legalize their, and that of NATO forces, mass spying on German citizens. Btw: In terms of "Nazi encryption" it's a bit odd to make a statement like that, the Nazis, just like the USSR, the US, or pretty much any formal military force, did and still do use "strong crpyto" for their own needs [3]. That's why conflating encryption tech with privacy rights, as if they're just synonyms, is quite misleading. [0] https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2013-10/nsa-uerberwachung-merkel-interview-foschepoth https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2013-10/nsa-uerberwa... [1] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/document/activities/cont/201403/20140307ATT80674/20140307ATT80674EN.pdf https://www.europarl.europa.eu/document/activities/cont/2014... [2]https://opendatacity.github.io/stasi-vs-nsa/english.html https://opendatacity.github.io/stasi-vs-nsa/english.html [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine