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My basic stance at this point is that, even with the best justification in the world for breaking encryption, governments cannot be trusted to safeguard keys.
by cal5k 8y ago
My basic stance at this point is that, even with the best justification in the world for breaking encryption, governments cannot be trusted to safeguard keys.
They WILL be stolen by adversaries. Full stop.
- wyldfire 8y agoKey escrow proposals don't "work" unless you outlaw encryption schemes that don't opt in to the escrow. Key escrow's weakness is certainly bad. But it's much worse that you can no longer be free to execute these mathematical concepts. Can you even discuss them freely in a world where the implementation is outlawed?
- gmuslera 8y agoYou don't need full sized, nor declared, adversaries. NSA workers, and associated private contractors have lost, leaked or even published backdoors and other very private information in the not so far past, along with questionable security practices in their own computers. Individuals, criminal organizations, corporations and so on will get pretty soon access to those backdoors, and that is something that will impact everyone.