> This Golden Key idea is one of those classic "I'm just an idea man, I don't have to figure out the nitty gritty details!" claims. Most definitely. And even

> This Golden Key idea is one of those classic "I'm just an idea man, I don't have to figure out the nitty gritty details!" claims. Most definitely. And even the way it was proposed at the end of the original WaPo editorial was very nonchalant: > However, with all their wizardry, perhaps Apple and Google could invent a kind of secure golden key they would retain and use only when a court has approved a search warrant. Let's all be sure to remind the "non-technical" public that there is no wizardry involved here. It's logic, mathematics, and science and some things are possible and some things just are not. Encryption in this sense is very black and white: either your data can be decrypted by a 3rd party or it can't. And if it can be decrypted by one 3rd party, you must assume it can be decrypted by any 3rd party.