"Cryptography can make possible a world in which people have control over information about themselves, not because government has granted them that control, but because only they possess the cryptographic keys to reveal that information. This is the world we are working to create."
— Hal Finney (Protecting privacy with electronic cash, 1993)
#cryptography #privacy #government
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