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https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-brief-history-of-the-nsa-attempting-to-insert-backdoors-into-encrypted-data https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-brief-history-of-the...
- tptacek 2y agoUnless you count Clipper as a "backdoor", this article asks the same question I am. The whole point of Clipper, of course, was that keys were escrowed.
- adastra22 2y agoClipper was deliberately backdoored (the key exchange had a trap door), with that backdoor only publicly found after its release. This was more the a just key escrow. Why would that not count?
- tptacek 2y agoThe entire point of Clipper was to field cryptography that NSA could break. That wasn't a later revelation. It was the understanding at the time. It's why there were "the crypto wars".