Mr. Camp has written about this topic before, see More Encryption Is Not the Solution (2013) https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2508864 https://queue.acm.org/

Mr. Camp has written about this topic before, see More Encryption Is Not the Solution (2013) https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2508864 https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2508864 http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/it-security/escaping-the-dragnet-of-surveillance-what-the-experts-say-about-encryption/ http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/it-security/escaping-the-dr... "The recent exposure of the dragnet-style surveillance of Internet traffic has provoked a number of responses that are variations of the general formula, ‘More encryption is the solution.' This is not the case. In fact, more encryption will probably only make the privacy crisis worse than it already is." https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2013JulSep/0933.html https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2013JulSep... Re: Mandatory encryption is theater " Correct, but if you make encrypt mandatory, they will have to break _all_ encryption, that's what the law tells them to. As long as encryption only affects a minority of traffic and they can easier go around (ie: FaceBook, Google etc. delivering the goods) they don't need to render _all_ encryption transparent. "