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> You could make cryptographic protocol where all chats have an extra user in them whose key is unable to be decrypted or revealed unless there is a warrant pro
by gray_charger 3y ago
> You could make cryptographic protocol where all chats have an extra user in them whose key is unable to be decrypted or revealed unless there is a warrant provided.
...that's called a backdoor.
- charcircuit 3y agoA publically documented part of a system that explicitly states its purpose is not a backdoor.
- Tyrannosaur 3y agoA publicly documented part of a system that explicitly states that its purpose is to compromise encryption and privacy may not technically be a "backdoor", but that's a distinction without a difference. https://www.justsecurity.org/16503/security-front-doors-vs-back-doors-distinction-difference/ https://www.justsecurity.org/16503/security-front-doors-vs-b...