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From the Introduction: "More and more Internet traffic is encrypted. This poses a threat to our society as it limits the ability of government a
by waynecochran 11y ago
From the Introduction:
"More and more Internet traffic is encrypted.
This poses a threat to our society as it limits
the ability of government agencies to monitor
Internet communication for the prevention of
terrorism and globalized crime."
and then adds
"Fortunately, under reasonable assumptions,
it is feasible for agencies to fool users into
deploying cryptographic systems that the users
believe are secure but that the agencies are able
to break."
So good encryption is bad? What!?!?
- periodontal 11y agoSee the last section (Afterword: removing the hat): First, in case this is not obvious to the reader, we do not actually endorse the attacker's perspective. Our goal in analyzing the security of systems is to prevent attacks.
- accommodavid 11y agoI met Bernstein a few months ago after he gave a talk about this same subject. In his talk he pretended to be a Verizon employee, explaining how vital it is to him and his company that they can track what their users are doing on their network in order to improve their advertising services. (Without breaking character at any point, pretty impressive.) I guess it's easier to reason about these things when you're trying to break something, rather than trying to prevent it from happening.