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Seeing as encryption is illegal in China, I don't think they will need to give up any keys.

• gruez 7y ago
  >Seeing as encryption is illegal in China Source for this? That would make any https site in china illegal.
  • kube-system 7y ago
    Not an expert, but I searched and found this link which seems to explain it well: https://www.freshfields.com/en-us/our-thinking/campaigns/digital/data/china-rules-on-encryption/ https://www.freshfields.com/en-us/our-thinking/campaigns/dig... tl;dr: encryption is not completely illegal, but it sounds like it's pretty tightly controlled.
    • dontbenebby 7y ago
      I didn't think they'd be foolish enough to completely ban it. They're not comically evil, they just have certain incentives. Key escrow meets those goals.
  • fnord123 7y ago
    I'm sorry, I was wrong. It requires a license from the State Encryption Management Commission: http://www.cryptolaw.org/cls2.htm#prc http://www.cryptolaw.org/cls2.htm#prc I am not a lawyer nor a cryptography expert who can advise whether licenses are granted easily or whether they are revoked if you fall out of favour.