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Amazon and other tech companies can design systems where the keys are held entirely by the end-users. How far is the US willing and able to go to get at that da
by geekbeast 12y ago
Amazon and other tech companies can design systems where the keys are held entirely by the end-users. How far is the US willing and able to go to get at that data?
- skuhn 12y agoHow? If I send an e-mail via Amazon's service, they must at minimum have the standard e-mail headers in order to process it. In which case, it's no different than PGP-encrypted e-mail, available with almost any e-mail provider. This also provides Amazon (and whoever subpoenas Amazon) with significant meta-data on my communications, even if they don't have my actual text. In order to make e-mail into a system where two people can communicate in a secure fashion, where no data is stored on or passes through a remote system unencrypted, you would have to re-implement e-mail. And of course there goes interoperability.