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Cryptography products may be declared illegal, but the information will never be

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Bruce Schneier
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: January 15
Computer Scientist
Cryptographer
Mathematician
Physicist
Writer
New York City
New York
Products
Information
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Cryptography
Declared
Illegal

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