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Attempts, unofficially dubbed the "Crypto Wars", have been made by the United States (US) and allied governments to limit the public's and foreign nations' access to cryptography strong enough to thwart decryption by national intelligence agencies, especially the National Security Agency (NSA).
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crypto wars game fbi: most wanted crypto wars fbi most wanted crypto wars recap Jul 21, 2023 · Dating from the publication of the groundbreaking 1976 paper that introduced public key cryptography—a means of widening access to encryption that was developed just in time for the...
Oct 10, 2016 · The so-called Crypto Wars of the 1990s had many battles: The CLIPPR chip, an NSA-endorsed system designed to introduce a cryptographic backdoor into the U.S. mobile telephony system; attempting...
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Jul 21, 2021 · In a new policy study from Kathryn Waldron, resident fellow and Sofia Lesmes, research assistant on R Street’s cybersecurity and emerging threats team, discuss how the encryption debate in the United States has been marked by a number of high-profile events since the early Crypto Wars in the 1990s that have shaped the debate into the limiting ...
Aug 28, 2024 · Under the auspices of combating cybercrime, governments around the world have pushed for access to encrypted communications because they see these secure channels as potential havens for illicit activity. At the same time, privacy advocates and tech specialists warn that weakening encryption exposes everyone to risks and undermines the trust ...
Feb 4, 2021 · Published February 4, 2021. The encryption debate, now in its third decade, still revolves around the issues of what kinds of encryption citizens can use and under what conditions law enforcement agencies can have access to encrypted messages.
Jan 28, 2020 · Government arguments against encryption haven't changed since the 'Crypto Wars' of the 1990s. But the government may win this time around.
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