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mike | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 TRUE 


Encryption was created by the NSA and Tor was created by the US Navy to support suppressed people in foreign lands.

But all open source
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mleku | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 encryption was not created by the NSA

don't think David Chaum was NSA

i don't think that Boneh was NSA

pretty sure that Kobitz wasn't NSA

also, who else, let me list the names of the cryptographers who contributed to cryptography and elliptic curve and RSA signatures and hash functions shall I?

anyone who thinks governments do anything except limit human flourishing are unlikely to talk about actual human beings who discovered new scientific principles that matter

satoshi, number one, non-government, antigovernment, fucking legend