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How did Crypto Wars 1 not have a political solution? Export controls were dropped, the Clipper chip was canned. It was mostly due to the political arguments bei
by zigzigzag 10y ago
How did Crypto Wars 1 not have a political solution? Export controls were dropped, the Clipper chip was canned. It was mostly due to the political arguments being made at the time, not some unstoppable technological breakthrough.
- Panino 10y agoThe story that prompted this discussion is about BULLRUN, a government effort to backdoor crypto, which took place after Crypto Wars 1. And as we know, BULLRUN is just a small portion of what we've had to deal with since Crypto Wars 1 was supposedly "won."
- dmix 10y agoClipper chip failed on a technical basis as much as politically. Just like all of the talk of crypto backdoors were DOA regardless of all the polticial rhetoric about its merits and downsides.
- zigzigzag 10y agoClipper could have been fixed. The flaw in it was repairable. It was dropped instead because the idea was already politically weak so it didn't take much to push it over the edge.