At 02:05 PM 10/16/95 -0700, Vladimir Z. Nuri wrote:
a study on this would be very significant. (from what I understand, the NSA tried to do this with public key crypto, i.e. suppress it at the publication stage. a professor gave a lecture on this in one of my classes and said that it was even covered in the NYT at the time. unfortunately I lost the date. I believe it was a long time ago (maybe the 80's or even the 70's). hopefully someone else has an encyclopedic brain.
1977/1978. "A Proposal for a Public Key Encryption System." IEEE meeting. Imprisonment threat by letter. Mathematical Games column in Scientific American. 3,000 copies of paper distributed free by MIT.
unfortunately, whenever someone says, "don't name my company", it loses effectiveness. I would like to point out that people are directly contributing to their erosion of rights by this behavior that suggests that they doing something lawbreaking that they are ashamed of.
One should always suggest to investigating authorities that they show a warrant or get lost. "Quo warranto"? It is rarely useful to chat with them. DCF