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Note to players: The answer to this tossup is pretty general. Computer law professor Peter Junger was prevented from admitting foreign students to a course due to his use of this technology, leading him to successfully sue the US government. The court case Bernstein v. US, (15[1])brought (15[1])by Daniel J. Bernstein, resulted in an example of this technology being considered free speech. This technology is why early browsers like Netscape needed to have separate international and domestic versions, with the latter (15[1])being much more difficult to obtain. Phil Zimmermann was put under criminal investigation and accused of illegally (*) exporting weapons because he freely (10[2])released (10[1])an example of this technology named for being “pretty good”. (10[1])The NSA placed a backdoor (10[1])in the Dual_EC_DRBG algorithm, which generates random numbers for use by this technology. For 10 points, name this technology, public-key examples of which include (10[1])Diffie-Hellman and RSA. ■END■

ANSWER: cryptography [accept cryptosystems or ciphers or encodings; accept encryption or equivalent; accept specific types of cryptography like public-key cryptography; anti-prompt on “SSL”, “RSA”, or “PGP”; prompt on “software”, “computer code”, “algorithms”, or equivalent; prompt on “crypto” because that unfortunately has two meanings; prompt on “security” or “privacy software” with “what general kind of technology provides the security/privacy?”] (The US prohibited exporting encryption with more than a 40-bit key, so many programs like internet browsers needed to be made intentionally insecure for their global release.)
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Ashvin SrivatsaEight Megabytes And Constantly SwappingMacro Editors4515
Andrew HunterA TV Guide for NetheadsComputer Science: Going Outside4615
Michael CoatesEventually Munches All Computer Storagefoo8015
Arnav SoodCarnegie LemonsI Paused My Unique Game to Be Here10210
Michał GerasimiukWhy does ACF have electrons do its work?I thought this was a Counter-Strike themed tournament10210
Corry Wanga neural-net processor; a thinking machineplaying emacs while my parents are arguing10310
Seth EbnerDianetics for DiabeticsEdwardian Manifestation of All Colonial Sins11310
Luke Van De WegheTheJAX guide -league -of -legends -lol -mortal -kombat11810
Henry Cafaroscreaming into the public static void main(String[] args)We Bought a Complexity Zoo Story14210

Summary

TournamentEditionExact Match?TUHConv. %Power %Neg %Average Buzz
EMACS at CO08/06/2023Y4100%25%0%100.75
EMACS Online10/01/2023Y5100%40%0%89.60