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BLue | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Wonderful post. It's like sitting on the sideline of a sportsevent where the commentator explains the action and I feel like being part of the game.
Having followed the cryptowars in the 90ies (yes I am old 😑), even wearing a crypto-code (see my bio pic) T-Shirt back then this post stirs up some emotion. Thanks!
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BLue | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 In this context I'd like to bring attention to a foundation of a secure internet since 25(!) years. 

GnuPG

Only with this *open source* project the mass adoption of PGP and encryption in general really took off.

Everyday it's used (mostly in the background) to ensure privacy and software integrity. So let's not forget the founder of GnuPG:

Werner Koch

I don't know much about him, but I was always impressed how he as a solo dev ran this project with almost no funding and not giving up. 


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Koch
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BLue | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Very cool! While we're at it let's not forget GnuPG and the OpenPGP project, which played a key in opensourceing Phil's work.
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