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Re:The Mathematics Community and the NSA [pdf] by black_beard on Thursday January 15, 2015 @11:18AM (#8893328)
Because you don't need a strong cipher to send text messages like "Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum."
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Re:The Mathematics Community and the NSA [pdf] by schoen on Thursday January 15, 2015 @01:15PM (#8894243)
Presumably pirates favor arrrr-C4 or arrrr-SA (both of them invented by Ronald Rivest.)
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