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Word: cypherpunk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, public-key encryption created a headache for the NSA by giving ordinary citizens -- and savvy criminals -- a way to exchange coded messages that could not be easily cracked. That headache became a nightmare in 1991, when a cypherpunk programmer named Phil Zimmermann combined public-key encryption with some conventional algorithms in a piece of software he called PGP -- pretty good privacy -- and proceeded to give it away, free of charge, on the Internet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Should Keep the Keys? | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

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