From 17931180122035b46b18e1b5a2522d66e78fe9de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Busby Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 00:49:42 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Correct PGP to RSA in "90s crypto wars" --- _events/90s-crypto-wars.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/_events/90s-crypto-wars.md b/_events/90s-crypto-wars.md index e7f6017..b8f9790 100644 --- a/_events/90s-crypto-wars.md +++ b/_events/90s-crypto-wars.md @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ From wikipedia: [Phil Zimmermann](/people/phil-zimmermann) was a key player in this period. The PGP software he authored was considered as munitions by the US government and subject to export licenses. The US government at this time was keen to avoid strong crypto falling into the hands of civilians and foreign governments. At this time the US government was also pushing for specialised key-escrowed chips that would perform encryption, but make the plaintext readable to NSA if necessary. This was rightly considered a gross violation of privacy, rights, and a huge security hole by the cypherpunks. -Since Public Key encryption was considered a munition, t-shirts like this (containing the PGP sourcecode) were created as a form of civil disobedience using [Adam Back](/people/adam-back)'s three-line Perl implementation of PGP: +Since Public Key encryption was considered a munition, t-shirts like this (containing the RSA sourcecode) were created as a form of civil disobedience using [Adam Back](/people/adam-back)'s three-line Perl implementation of RSA: ![Image of PGP Tshirt](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Munitions_T-shirt_%28front%29.jpg)