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This has been my understanding of what they really want, in particular when using the word "front door". That's key escrow. Not weakening encryption so that the
by cmurf 11y ago
This has been my understanding of what they really want, in particular when using the word "front door". That's key escrow. Not weakening encryption so that they can break it, but they want manufacturer or OS provider to have a copy of the keys used and in particular the law seems worded to burden the company to actually perform the decryption, not merely hand over the keys.
- cmurf 11y agoAddition: While I don't think either funded or unfunded mandate to do this decryption is OK; I think it's untenable for the company to hand over keys to just any government. With those keys, the government can not only decrypt, they can decrypt-modify-encrypt and thus frame dissidents or political enemies.
- rietta 11y agoThe argument has been around for a long time. The first crypto wars had their policy papers and summary pros/cons such as https://www.cs.cornell.edu/html/cs513-sp98/hw.policy.keyEscrow.html https://www.cs.cornell.edu/html/cs513-sp98/hw.policy.keyEscr....