[Cryptography] USG v. Apple, Apple Motion to Vacate Decrypt Order

[Richard Outerbridge]

> On 2016-02-27 (58), at 00:03:26, Jerry Leichter <leichter at lrw.com> wrote:
> [….]

>> Not to mention the grudgingly Friedman approved M-94. Would that now count as
>> a reasonable citizen’s weapon to be in the right of possession of these days?
> If it had existed and been used by militias in the 18th century, maybe - though,
> again … ”used by militia members” is not the same as ”arms”.

Didn’t both sides during the American Civil War employ variants
of the Vigenere or Beufort polyalphabetic metal disk thingees?

Wouldn’t those have been considered field cipher weaponry?
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