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The cat's out of the bag. All this would lead to is law-abiding citizens having their information at risk while criminals continue to use crypto without backdoo
by makerofspoons 7y ago
The cat's out of the bag. All this would lead to is law-abiding citizens having their information at risk while criminals continue to use crypto without backdoors.
- kromem 7y agoI wish laypeople hearing this stuff realized how easy it would be for the "bad guys" to use one time pads. It would be trivial to have terror cells be distributed a USB with several GB of a OTP, and that would be unbreakable even into the age of quantum computing if used properly. Thus isn't at all about terrorism or the "really bad guys." It's 100% about accessing the average Joe Blow's communications.
- masscrypteria 7y agoBad guys already do use such schemes and more. If the government can’t crack strong encryption as-is, the problem is that strong encryption is deployed at scale.
- masscrypteria 7y agoBuild a better exceptional access encryption system that solves human and technological shortcomings. Removing strong encryption at scale would have far more effect than what you’ve described.