> If it is possible to break encryption, it will be broken by someone. It better be by us... The option isn't encryption broken by them or broken by us. It's s

> If it is possible to break encryption, it will be broken by someone. It better be by us... The option isn't encryption broken by them or broken by us. It's secure encryption or encryption that can be broken by everybody with sufficient resources. > Remains the risk that some bad guys could get their hands on the golden keys. Yes, design to handle that? Yes, because secure systems are so secure that we should be trusting them to base all of the world's encryption on. It takes a single bug or intrusion to undermine everything. There's no way to design for a key that needs to be usable/accessible for when you need to access encrypted anything, while keeping it secure from bad actors. That's even before considering how the US government and US institutions have, over the course of the past decades, pissed away any and all good will and trust that the public may have had in them. Why would anybody want to give the FBI or NSA free access to all of their data? After seeing enough stories of employees looking at naked pictures, stalking ex-girlfriends, dragnet surveillance or other gross abuses of power, there's no way these people can be trusted.