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Who would be allowed? Every FBI agent? Just the chief? Even if you could restrict it - thousands of government related figures in the FBI, NSA, DHS, TSA and els
by philipwhiuk 9y ago
Who would be allowed? Every FBI agent? Just the chief? Even if you could restrict it - thousands of government related figures in the FBI, NSA, DHS, TSA and elsewhere would want the key.
- cvwright 9y agoWell, the one idea we have now is to limit it to whoever can authorize spending thousands or millions of dollars in electricity to solve a computational puzzle that recovers the key. In practice, I'd like to see it require judicial oversight to release the funds.
- yarrel 9y agoHow will you ensure that botnets are brought under judicial oversight?
- StanislavPetrov 9y agoThat entirely misses the point. The whole idea behind the existence of a "key" means that the key can either be mishandled, stolen, or independently discovered, rendering cryptography inherently insecure.