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:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5846189Before 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.Also worth reading barrkel’s comment a couple comments down…