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People keep saying that backdoors weaken security in general, but that's simply not true. If you create a cryptographic backdoor that only one third party entit
by ummonk 7y ago
People keep saying that backdoors weaken security in general, but that's simply not true. If you create a cryptographic backdoor that only one third party entity can access (because only they have the private key to do so), this doesn't fundamentally make it any weaker than ordinary end-to-end encryption (where the recipient has the private key to decrypt the messages you send them).
- saagarjha 7y agoIt does, because the third party may share their keys with others.
- throwaway55554 7y ago> It does, because the third party may share their keys with others. It makes the store where the keys are kept a priority target as well.
- nabnob 7y agoI don't want any third party to read my messages, including the US Government.
- maqp 7y ago>because only they have the private key to do so So when the system that contains the key is hacked and the key is exfiltrated? Or if an insider steals or leaks the key? The effin NSA couldn't keep their most well guarded secrets from the Shadow Brokers and from Snowden, there isn't an entity on the planet we should trust with such key.