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What about asking companies to voluntarily limit their encryption to bit depths that are crackable with huge resources, but to avoid anything stronger than that
by ars 7y ago
What about asking companies to voluntarily limit their encryption to bit depths that are crackable with huge resources, but to avoid anything stronger than that? Then you don't even need a backdoor.
This means government can't do it in bulk, and it would out of the reach of an ordinary individual, but it would still be possible.
- bitxbitxbitcoin 7y agoThen in five or ten years the computing resources needed to crack that encryption would be available at the corner store.
- ars 7y agoSo adjust the encryption level as time goes on. Don't make the policy the number of bits, rather set the amount of computation needed.