Twenty-five years ago it was cryptography, today it's model weights

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jameshart•about 1 hour ago

Slight timeline correction: 25 years ago in 2001 Blowfish was no longer contraband - the crypto export rules had been changed by 2000. As of January 2000 Netscape and IE were both shipping 128bit DES internationally.

Still, the t-shirts with Blowfish source printed on them were a cool bit of retro hacker chic.

tptacek•34 minutes ago

Also, the first OpenBSD hackathon was 1999; it was in fact semicryptographic (they shipped IPSEC) but they've had hackathons in the US since, and for a time developers were coming out to Calgary because that's where Theo was. The dumb export control shipping dance was real though.

MrGilbert•about 1 hour ago

Reminds me of T-Shirts with DeCSS's code printed on it. Wild times.