Jerry Berman and the 1996 Battle to Lock the Internet
A South African engineer warned the Senate that the state was breaking the web's privacy to maintain its watch, a plea the FBI would systematically dismantle one month later.
By Marcus Boone ·
Encryption
Qualcomm's Philip R. Karn Jr. and the 1997 Fight Over Code as a Weapon
A technical manual was treated as a munition to keep encryption under lock and key; the record of the fight is unclassified, but the strategic motive for the deception remains obscured.
By Marcus Boone ·
Guttman and the 1995 Blueprint for Federal Encryption
A 200-page guide to computer security served as the public face of a government struggle over encryption backdoors and state surveillance, kept under wraps until recently.
By Marcus Boone ·