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Re:The new £1 Coin by bigbugbag on Monday March 27, 2017 @06:04AM (#13966350)
Hasn't UK been fighting encryption since at least the 90's ?
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Re:The new £1 Coin by Noughmad on Monday March 27, 2017 @06:54AM (#13966577)
To be honest, they have been fighting encryption since the 30's.
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Re:The new £1 Coin by arethuza on Monday March 27, 2017 @08:23AM (#13967064)
Public key encryption was actually first thought of at GCHQ - but was you would expect they kept it secret:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography#Classi...

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Re:The new £1 Coin by djsumdog on Monday March 27, 2017 @08:57AM (#13967280)
So has the US:

https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/97690/MIT-CSA...

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Re:The new £1 Coin by ollie87 on Monday March 27, 2017 @06:27AM (#13966455)
Aye. We should just go back to using the Royal Mail.
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Re:The new £1 Coin by UweSchmidt on Monday March 27, 2017 @09:11AM (#13967383)
Wouldn't be surprised if the surveillance infrastructure for physical mail started deteriorating already and a beautiful handcrafted, scented letter with calligraphy could fly under the radar.
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