> Without bonafide strong encryption, those strong protections against misuse probably can't exist. Agreed. I actually did some work on this topic that requir

> Without bonafide strong encryption, those strong protections against misuse probably can't exist. Agreed. I actually did some work on this topic that requires having things like strong ciphers and hash functions, and protocols that provide perfect forward secrecy. Our approach was to take strong constructions and turn them into a kind of proof-of-work. So you can recover the key, but to do so you have to expend a huge amount of electricity (ie, money). The idea was partly just to call the bluff of the government types who claim that "exceptional access" is so critical to our safety. If they're not willing to spend the money, then we should not be willing to compromise our security. NOTE: I'm not suggesting that we should actually deploy this kind of thing, as long as we have a choice in the matter. Just that we should be prepared in case we need it. Anyway, the paper is here: C.V. Wright and M. Varia. Crypto Crumple Zones: Enabling Limited Access without Mass Surveillance. In IEEE EuroS&P, 2018. https://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~cvwright/papers/crumplezones.pdf https://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~cvwright/papers/crumplezones.pdf