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The Cyphernomicon §7.5.1: PGP 2.0 arrived at an important time (Timothy C. May, 1994)

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Timothy C. May September 10, 1994

7.5.1. PGP 2.0 arrived at an important time

  • in September 1992, the very same week the Cypherpunks had their first meeting, in Oakland, CA. (Arthur Abraham printed up professional-looking diskette labels for the PGO 2.0 diskettes distributed. A general feeling that we were forming at the “right time.”)
  • just 6 months before the Clipper announcement caused a firestorm of interest in public key cryptography

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Original external source

https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/cyphernomicon.txt
One section of Timothy C. May's The Cyphernomicon: Cypherpunks FAQ and More, Version 0.666, dated September 10, 1994. The FAQ as a whole runs to more than 22,000 lines; this entry keeps only this section, which May's copyright notice allows ("Use short sections under 'fair use' provisions, with appropriate credit"). Wording, outline markers and typos are kept as in the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute copy; the time of day is not recorded, so it is set to 00:00 UTC.