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I think this is particularly interesting and timely among the current calls from certain segments of US law enforcement and politicians to "ban encryption" or f

by gregmac 11y ago

I think this is particularly interesting and timely among the current calls from certain segments of US law enforcement and politicians to "ban encryption" or for vendors to add backdoors.

Jtsummers 11y ago
Indeed. If a legitimate cryptosystem had been used, with the keys held in escrow in a secure facility, the matter of authenticity could at least be resolved, even if we decided not to cheat and use the stored keys to determine the location of the treasure.