And now, PGP is published back in the U.S. again, for the last year or so, and it's been improved here also. Well, I don't get to write any code anymore myself, I haven't written code in years, the Peter Principal has taken its toll. Instead the software is written by others under my direction. I guess what I spend most of my time doing is going out and doing public speaking and contact. And talking about the need for encryption, and freedom, and why not talk a little bit about what all this means in a political sense.
Cryptography is a very political technology.
And the reason why is because there was a time in the past where it was important politically, not at the grass roots level but at a strategic level. Governments needed it for diplomatic and military applications. World War Two was influenced by the Allies breaking the German Enigma Cipher. But, those were the days when computers filled rooms and were made of vacuum tubes, and there were only a few around and they were owned by governments. Today we live in the information age.