When public-key cryptography became available to the public, it was assumed by all that it would be used entirely E2E. If implemented that way, then nation-states would be unable to access everyone's data on a whim. Thus, nation-states started the Crypto Wars.

What actually happened was that most people used cryptography to send data to servers which nation-states could at the very least access with a court order. So nation-states got what they wanted without doing anything. Thus, nation-states quietly gave up fighting the Crypto Wars.

Now, people are gradually returning to the original intent of cryptography (E2E). They could achieve real privacy, which means nation-states could lose easy access to everyone's data. Thus, nation-states are restarting the Crypto Wars.

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The difference between security services and criminals is by authorization. Authorization is just organized crime recognized as government. Government literally is Mind (Mentis) Gubernatorial (declaration).

As long as we can protect general purpose computing, we can implement our own private communication systems. Thanks to some very brave people in the 90's, cryptography is out in the wild and free. That said, there is a war on general purpose computing and more and more people are relegating themselves to closed-source, walled gardens.

Unintelligent governments doing dumb things. Color me shocked

PGPFTW. Love the tool, but why encode signed messages in bulky seed phrase format instead of compact hex format? Even the short Hi Bob message example ends up too long for SMS