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"When we exported 5,000 pages of PGP source code in a book through MIT Press in the 90s, we ran into some issues.

It turns out it's very hard to scan C source code via OCR. So what did we do? We wrote software that was specifically designed for OCR scanning of C source code and published it at the beginning of the book as a bootstrapping mechanism.

It was shortly after this point that I received word that the intelligence agencies had realized they had lost."

- Phil Zimmermann

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Muuny 2y ago

I mean... would they tell us if it worked?

₿logging₿itcoin 2y ago

It worked.

https://philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/index.html

DRE 2y ago

Man it sure doesn’t feel like they have lost. But hopeful anyway

Jameson Lopp 2y ago

They had lost the battle to prevent export of strong cryptography.

DRE 2y ago

Ah gotcha 👌🏼yes indeed

Jeff 2y ago

One of the greatest moves. Check fucking mate

dakript 2y ago

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Gowron 2y ago

Victory: savour the moment when your enemy realizes they have lost.

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f87a968a... 2y ago

Yes, they have completely failed technically.

I hope that more people use reliable end -to -segment encrypted communication software, and the Chinese have not used this software. I am annoyed by this. I hope they also use SIGNAL, TOR, PGP, etc.