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If you and your friend have previously exchanged public/private key pairs and used gmail to transfer encrypted messages, (which is what parent is referring to a
by meric 11y ago
If you and your friend have previously exchanged public/private key pairs and used gmail to transfer encrypted messages, (which is what parent is referring to about providing service to only one part of the process) the government cannot impose anything on gmail to hand over your actual message.
- Spooky23 11y agoNo, but they will charge you with something.
- loup-vaillant 11y agoThe current wording of the bill states that you have to hand over the keys to data you have encrypted. If the provider doesn't encrypt anything (which is the case with end-to-end encryption), then it doesn't have to hand over anything.
- jaegerpicker 11y agoSure but that doesn't stop the government from charging me (the sender/receiver) with illegally encrypting communication which the bill looks like it could provide. It's a political problem because NO ONE should be charged with using math. When you consider how badly all computer crime laws are enforced, I think that fighting the bill via political methods is the only safe way forward.
- meric 11y agoSure, embed your encrypted messages in plain text or cat pictures using steganography. Assuming encrypted form of messages are uniformly distributed, how're they going to find out you're doing it unless you confess or they find where you hide your keys? If the judge can charge you because you and a friend exchanged cat memes, you've got bigger problems.
- Spooky23 11y agoThat's the problem with these sorts of laws attacking crypto. If math is illegal, what other "hidden" messages are potentially contraband?