running dogg wrote:
Anybody remember the fuss over PGP (Pretty Good Privacy), a freeware
encryption program that came out in the early days of the public
internet? The feds HATED it because they were afraid that high grade
encryption would fall into the hands of our enemies. It never caught on,
and the NSA likely cracked the code, so they stopped making a fuss about
it and now nobody remembers it.

I have always been suspicious since the time MIT (?) said, "you can't use
this version of it, but you can use this other version which is exactly
like the other version in every respect." Somehow I never believed the new
version was like the old version in every respect.

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