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To: Rusty0604
RSA stands for Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman. They described a robust pubic key encryption scheme that the federal government declared a munition and threatened Phil Zimmerman with heavy federal time for publishing it.

EFF sold t-shirts with a machine readable version that technically were a federal felony to display to foreign nationals. The t-shirt money funded Zimmerman's defense.

Zimmerman 1, Feds 0.

On the back it says: "Warning, this shirt is a munition under ITAR etc..."

/johnny

13 posted on 08/26/2013 7:26:36 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Thanks


17 posted on 08/26/2013 7:34:42 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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