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by marchdown 5404 days ago
Can you elaborate on the "openly weakened stuff" part?

I don't know much about security, but I am vaguely aware that there were some efforts by various governments to control, regulate, weaponize and even outlaw crypto, but I don't know where these effort have left us. Are there any crypto systems with acknowledged backdoors? Are there any which are not only widely considered to be secure, but are known to have actually prevented three-letter agencies from getting their way?

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Back in the 90s the US Government prohibited export of SSL stronger than 40 bits. I believe this is what they're referring to.