Politics, information technology, and privacy. A triad continually seeking balance with a history of conflict that originates from the introduction of personal computers at the consumer level. Attempts by the U.S. government in preventing access to “strong enough” cryptography for foreign nationals and states were numerous from 1990 onward. Dubbed as the “Crypto Wars,” such attempts were aimed at maintaining an acceptable level to warrant potential decryption by government agencies for public security reasons. Out of this context came the Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) software that allowed authentication and private communications. The use of PGP was widely adopted by a large segment