NSA Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes (1997)
It’s worth reading Ray Ozzie’s (Lotus Notes creator)’s comment on this from a HN 2013 discussion:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5846189">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5846189</a><p>Before the software was released, Ray Ozzie and Kauffman openly described what they were doing at an RSA conference. This was not a secret back door. It was compliance with export controls everybody in the industry dealt with.<p>Also worth reading barrkel’s comment a couple comments down…