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Agreed. Public-key cryptography is fine. Entrusting third parties to protect your privacy is dying. This is something I have been thinking about a lot lately.
by toddsiegel 13y ago
Agreed. Public-key cryptography is fine. Entrusting third parties to protect your privacy is dying.
This is something I have been thinking about a lot lately. Users need to take more responsibility for guarding their own privacy. I think there are a lots of business opportunities here: easy to use tools that keep control entirely in Alice's and Bob's hands and public key cryptography is certainly part of the solution.
- state 13y agoI've been thinking quite a lot about that exact thing as well. There must be a way to build great commercial tools that are also truly secure. I'd love to discuss further. Contact info in my profile.
- e3pi 13y ago> state 6 hours ago | link | parent | flag > I've been thinking quite a lot about that exact thing as well. There must be a way to build great commercial tools that are also truly secure. I'd love to discuss further. Contact info in my profile. 'state', to solicit this collaboration, would it not be prudent to init a new HN account under a different name?
- christo 13y agoThe fact that the agencies have to apply pressure to obtain keys proves that the crypto is working. Therefore, if you have, use and keep secret your own keys, the best-resourced intruders cannot practicably get your data. Of course, http://xkcd.com/538/ http://xkcd.com/538/
- ctdonath 13y agoAKA rubber hose cryptanalysis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-hose_cryptanalysis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-hose_cryptanalysis