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I'm reminded of efforts in the 1990s to ban strong encryption in email and websites because governments tried to tell us it was used by drug dealers and pedos to do their nefarious activities.

Yes, governments really did want to force us to use HTTPS with only broken/weak crypto.

Same propaganda, different buzzwords.



In hindsight, they really misjudged how comfortable pedos would be with discussing their affairs in plaintext email.


just the rich, well-connected ones with friends in high places right?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip


Yes and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States

Notice that in those cases DJB was represented by the eff, so they have been involved in this issue for a very long time.


Never heard of this, thanks




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