| ▲ | jameshart 4 hours ago | |
Slight timeline correction: 25 years ago in 2001 Blowfish was no longer contraband - the crypto export rules had been changed by 2000. As of January 2000 Netscape and IE were both shipping 128bit DES internationally. Still, the t-shirts with Blowfish source printed on them were a cool bit of retro hacker chic. | ||
| ▲ | tptacek 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Also, the first OpenBSD hackathon was 1999; it was in fact semicryptographic (they shipped IPSEC) but they've had hackathons in the US since, and for a time developers were coming out to Calgary because that's where Theo was. The dumb export control shipping dance was real though. | ||
| ▲ | MrGilbert 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Reminds me of T-Shirts with DeCSS's code printed on it. Wild times. | ||