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nathanallen | 12 years ago

One of the best stories from the PGP saga is that Zimmerman worked with MIT Press to have the entire PGP source code published, in machine readable print. This allowed him to make the argument that his scary-dangerous-cryptosystem was in fact protected under the First Amendment as free speech.

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furyg3|12 years ago

It gets better, they not only printed it out but also scanned it!

http://www.pgpi.org/pgpi/project/scanning/

Cryptography software was subject to export-control at the time... so they printed it out, and scanned it in Europe to create a 'clean' version of the software for use abroad (PGPi ). They continued to do this for new releases of PGP until the export controls were released.

Must have made for a nasty devops relationship...