Posted on 02/18/2016 6:22:23 AM PST by fruser1
Gather around young’uns: Back in the antediluvean early 90s, when the digital world was young, a motley group of technologists and privacy advocates fought what are now, somewhat melodramatically, known as the Crypto Wars. There were many distinct battlefields, but the overarching question over which the Crypto Wars were fought was this: Would ordinary citizens be free to protect their communications and private files using strong, truly secure cryptography, or would governments seek to force programmers and computer makers to build in backdoors that would enable any scheme of encryption to be broken by the authorities?
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I remember. I was a CNE then. This begat PGP. It was the craze for a while, then flamed. Even the most popular follow-on has now faded.
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