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by static
4/18/22 6:03:11 AM
4/18/22 6:03:11 AM
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New I had an RSA t-shirt for a while.
Back when RSA cryptography was prohibited from being exported from the US. I never tried to take it into and then out of the US, though. Didn't want that fight at the border!

Thought you might be amused to know that.

Wade.
Post #441,386
by rcareaga
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4/18/22 7:07:02 PM
4/18/22 7:07:02 PM
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New This goes back to the late seventies at least
I remember reading an account, then, of a mathematician who’d been scheduled to present a paper at a conference. The NSA intercepted him—because the maths he was speaking of could have been employed to devise (then) unbreakable encryptions—and forbade him to appear, threatening a lengthy prison sentence if he defied them.

cryptically,
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