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The PGPi scanning project

2024-05-23 11:06:48+00:00

A reminder for those who sit on the fence regarding whether “code is speech” — global access to strong cryptography would not be where it is today without a 1997 project to publish — as a book — the entire source code of PGP 5.0i in an OCR-friendly format, in such a way as to emphatically subvert the US Government export controls on cryptography by the power of the 1st Amendment:

Interesting history is documented in the links below; I’m particularly taken with an observation from Ian Grigg in the first link:
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