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We, the people, have already been empowered[1] with tools that allow us to route around essentially any internet legislation (legally, too). Encrypt everything
by rasengan 8y ago
We, the people, have already been empowered[1] with tools that allow us to route around essentially any internet legislation (legally, too).
Encrypt everything.
We no longer have to be naked in the “Garden of Eden.”
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer_(cipher) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer_(cipher)
- nine_k 8y agoYou can trust your software only as much as you can trust your hardware. If the hardware (or opaque firmware that you can't control) is specifically furnished with a government-imposed backdoor, secretly from everyone, then software encryption may give you little. Transparency / openness of hardware gives you more chance, but it's hard to obtain.
- umvi 8y agoIt seems like even with open source hardware, if the manufacturer is not trusted they could still inject a secret backdoor into it. I'm both amazed and terrified that hardware has gotten so microscopic that it's essentially impossible to be 100% sure that what you designed is exactly what is on the chip.
- nine_k 8y agoI believe that inspection of chips is possible, but it's really really expensive, and necessarily destructive, so you can only test a random sample. I think the military can / have to afford this; consumers who want a few megaflops for a few cents have to trust the foundry.
- fipsboy 8y agoWhile not perfect, you should check out FIPS 140-2 (and the forever in progress FIPS 140-3).
- phkahler 8y agoWhy Lucifer? What is the significance of that cypher today? Is the Wikipedia even detailed enough to implement it?
- rasengan 8y agoIt was the first civilian block cypher.