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  • Dj Faustus #68
    "However, not before Zimmermann, working quickly to beat the legislation, developed the Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) program based on the RSA public-key cryptography algorithm. Zimmermann then released PGP 1.0 as freeware. Not long afterwards, Kelly Goen uploaded the PGP program onto some bulletin board systems, and shortly after that it was uploaded onto the Usenet where the cat escaped around the world."

    "MIT then began functioning as the official distributor of PGP. MIT and Zimmermann published a book that contained the PGP source code written in the C programming language, and printed in a special font designed to be easily read by computer scanners, which was legal since the US Supreme Court had consistently refused to ban any written expression."
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