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+ Crypto used to be cool. It had edge. It felt dangerous. Sharing + cryptography with someone on the internet could violate international + arms treaties. But then, like so many cool terms before and after, a + bunch of people who wanted to be rich came along and just about ruined + everything. +
+ ++ The cryptography of the past still exists. It's still strong as ever. It + even comes in e2e messaging apps so slick that your mom can use them. But + sometimes I want it to be crunchy. I want a command so ugly that I can + barely get it to work and that dumps out an incomprehensible stream of + bits when I get it wrong. I could have been a cypherpunk. Well, not + really. I was an angsty teen at around the right time but I was stuck in + the sticks with no computer. +
+ ++ PGP, cryptograms, Vigenère, pigpen... they're all cooler than any coin. + They're more fun than a contract so mathematically smart you can almost + forget it relies on an actual person to fulfil it. So let's make and + break pen-and-paper cyphers together. Copy my public key from below and + import it into your ring. Generate your own. Sign mine. Use them to email + me a bad poem about encryption. It will be a poem the CIA couldn't read + if every agent tried. The technology is every bit ours as much as theirs. + We can use it. +
+ ++ +
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