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> The feds used to fight civilian crypto tooth and nail. Curious. I'd like to read about this. Can anyone post any links?
by barbs 13y ago
> The feds used to fight civilian crypto tooth and nail.
Curious. I'd like to read about this. Can anyone post any links?
- wlesieutre 13y agohttp://www.loundy.com/Roadside_T-Shirt.html http://www.loundy.com/Roadside_T-Shirt.html is one example, there are probably others. It ended up going in a sane direction, but it's a bit crazy to imagine in hindsight.
- IvyMike 13y agoMore illegal crypto T-Shirts: http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/uk-shirt.html http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/uk-shirt.html This was one of my favorite shirts, but it finally gave up the ghost a few years ago.
- Zelphyr 13y agoJust do a search for Phil Zimmermann and what they did to him in the 90's for having the audacity to create PGP.
- pyre 13y agoMany developers that worked on crypto would cross the border into Canada to meet up and work on crypto to get around the export restrictions (crypto software was classified as a weapon; exporting it could get you the same punishment as exporting a missile).
- IvyMike 13y agoRead up on the Clipper chip: A chip which sort of being promoted to be the "official" way to do crypto in the US. Specifically designed to be decryptable by the NSA via "key escrow". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip It died when Matt Blaze figured out a way to trick the clipper chip doing encryption that the NSA could NOT decrypt.
- rozap 13y ago" Then-Senators John Ashcroft and John Kerry were opponents of the Clipper chip proposal, arguing in favor of the individual's right to encrypt messages and export encryption software." Wow. What happened?
- hvs 13y agoRead "Crypto: how the code rebels beat the government, saving privacy in the digital age" by Steven Levy. He outlines the whole story of public crypto until about 2000. Good read, too.