The History of Cryptography

In 19 93, bruce schneier published a book called applied cryptography. It contains algarithms which were not allowed to be used on the internet. An electronic engineer named phil karne asked h us. State department for a commoditys jurisdiction thebook. He wanted to know if he could legally ship the book across us Borders. Since there's no export regulations on books, he was given permission to export the book. So then phil carrn took a few pages from the book and placed them on a floppy desk. The state department had a discussion with the and denied the request. Years later, because the inscription was in electronic form, it was now considered a regulated mun