When Code Became a Weapon - Crypto Wars Explained
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https://www.privacyguides.org/videos/2025/05/08/when-code-became-a-weapon/
To establish our understanding of why privacy and encryption are so important we need to learn from the events of history, this week we’re diving into the crypto wars. More specifically the US government’s attempts to restrict strong encryption being exported internationally.
I hope you all enjoy the video and also learn something!
Let us know what you think of this different style of video, we have some more similar videos lined up!
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https://www.privacyguides.org/videos/2025/05/08/when-code-became-a-weapon/
To establish our understanding of why privacy and encryption are so important we need to learn from the events of history, this week we’re diving into the crypto wars. More specifically the US government’s attempts to restrict strong encryption being exported internationally.
I hope you all enjoy the video and also learn something!
Let us know what you think of this different style of video, we have some more similar videos lined up!
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https://www.privacyguides.org/videos/2025/05/08/when-code-became-a-weapon/
To establish our understanding of why privacy and encryption are so important we need to learn from the events of history, this week we’re diving into the crypto wars. More specifically the US government’s attempts to restrict strong encryption being exported internationally.
I hope you all enjoy the video and also learn something!
Let us know what you think of this different style of video, we have some more similar videos lined up!
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https://www.privacyguides.org/videos/2025/05/08/when-code-became-a-weapon/
To establish our understanding of why privacy and encryption are so important we need to learn from the events of history, this week we’re diving into the crypto wars. More specifically the US government’s attempts to restrict strong encryption being exported internationally.
I hope you all enjoy the video and also learn something!
Let us know what you think of this different style of video, we have some more similar videos lined up!
I really enjoyed the video, I knew a bit about the subject but still ended up learning things.
My only remark:While the goal of the video isn't to explain encryption, it should be explained what the difference between a 40-bit encryption and a 128-bit encryption is. The former was easily breakable ,the EFF had even made available a tool to do that.
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I really enjoyed the video, I knew a bit about the subject but still ended up learning things.
My only remark:While the goal of the video isn't to explain encryption, it should be explained what the difference between a 40-bit encryption and a 128-bit encryption is. The former was easily breakable ,the EFF had even made available a tool to do that.
Yeah that's a reasonable critique, I was trying to keep it approachable for non-technical viewers, maybe I could have gone into that a bit more but it felt largely out of scope for the video.
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Yeah that's a reasonable critique, I was trying to keep it approachable for non-technical viewers, maybe I could have gone into that a bit more but it felt largely out of scope for the video.
jordan:I was trying to keep it approachable for non-technical viewers, maybe I could have gone into that a bit more but it felt largely out of scope for the video.
That's totally fine, I wouldn't have explained why 40 bit was not secure, just that it was.
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