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Actually you are right and I overstated. This has been the distinction in the recent laws, if the provider as opposed to the interlocutors can decrypt it is re
by ds9 13y ago
Actually you are right and I overstated. This has been the distinction in the recent laws, if the provider as opposed to the interlocutors can decrypt it is required.
It is a challenge to build a system that encrypts as part of a service (rather than users encrypting at the endpoints), yet prevents the service operater being able to provide plaintext. In this situation the 5th amendment does not avail, but I think there is a strong argument for the service provider having an option to shut down (like Leveson/Lavabit) rather than cooperate - not on the grounds Leveson argued, but rather by a right to avoid being used as an instrument of fraud. But we digress from the main topic here.