The fascinating thing is that strong commercial/public cryptography has only really become a "thing" in the past couple of decades; it used to be nearly exclusi

The fascinating thing is that strong commercial/public cryptography has only really become a "thing" in the past couple of decades; it used to be nearly exclusively the domain of governments, which is why even today there are still residual export controls on strong cryptography.[1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_in_the_United_States#Current_status http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_in_the_U...