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Which side is the winning side and which is the losing side?

• fluidcruft 16y ago
  Cryptographers won this argument in 1996 with the Clipper chip. They are the first "winners". The agencies that want the backdoors were the "losers", but the premise is that the agencies will just keep trying until they succeed. It's asymmetric because the agencies' eventual win cannot be undone, but the cryptographer's win will be.
  • jbarham 16y ago
    > It's asymmetric because the agencies' eventual win cannot be undone, but the cryptographer's win will be. How can the agencies prevent crypto without backdoors being implemented on top of their crypto with backdoors?
  • CWuestefeld 16y ago
    It's asymmetric also because those advocating backdoors have, essentially, unlimited budget to attain their goals (or at least the resources are so lopsided as to be impossible to compare).
  • mfukar 16y ago
    I apologize in advance since I don't know the current state of things on this in the US, but is it different than the EU? As far as I know, lawful interception systems are widely in use here (EU) even today (in ISPs, banks, major mobile telephony providers, etc).