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Re:Uber Plans Millions in Back Pay After Shortchanging NYC D... by nradov on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @05:34PM (#14405578)
Public key cryptography wasn't illegal within the USA in the early 1990s. The legal issue was with exports.
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Re:Uber Plans Millions in Back Pay After Shortchanging NYC D... by Jabanga on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @01:18AM (#14407759)
Right. And the development of a global ecommerce market would have been severely hampered if the cypherpunks hadn't won the "crypto wars".
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Re:Uber Plans Millions in Back Pay After Shortchanging NYC D... by nradov on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @09:19AM (#14409766)
That's not really what happened. Lobbying by major tech companies such as IBM had a much greater impact on the regulatory changes than anything that the cypherpunks did.
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