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		jagger27 on March 15, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Systems Past: The software innovations we actually... What would the internet look like without encryption?

davidad_ on March 15, 2014 | [–]

I included a footnote to address this criticism. http://davidad.github.io/blog/2014/03/12/the-operating-syste...

TheZenPsycho on March 15, 2014 | [–]

so wait. are you saying encryption… encryption was invented after 1970?

Pitarou on March 15, 2014 | [–]

Asymmetric encryption (public-key cryptography) was developed in the 1970s. The internet would be very different without it.

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