RSA munitions T-shirt
Back when the US government classified strong encryption as “munitions,” RSA public key cryptography was technically illegal. In 1995, Adam Back protested this by creating a terse, obfuscated implementation of RSA in Perl code and used it as an email signature. The code was also printed on T-shirts. The shirt was classified as munitions because it contained source code for strong encryption. More on the shirt here. This was the code: #!/bin/perl -s– -export-a-crypto-system-sig -RSA-3-lines-PERL $m=unpack(H.$w,$m.””x$w),$_=`echo “16do$w 2+4Oi0$d*-^1[d2%Sa […]