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Re:NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus Notes (2002) by bottled_poe on Monday December 23, 2019 @03:42AM (#21862285)
While interesting, this is way off topic and should not be rated above discussion about the nefarious cryptographic behaviour of the business.
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Re:NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus Notes (2002) by acqq on Monday December 23, 2019 @04:18AM (#21862407)
> nefarious cryptographic behaviour of the business.

It was not just "business" then: the export of strong encryption had the same status as the export of weapons in the U.S. laws at that time. See the other threads here.

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