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Shipping breakable encryption sounds worse than shipping none at all. Especially when over and over again it becomes a source of vulnerabilities :(

• derefr 11y ago
  > Shipping breakable encryption sounds worse than shipping none at all. Well, yeah, that's the idea—"export-grade cryptography" essentially means means "cryptography we, as a state actor, can win against in a cyberwar."
  • darklajid 11y ago
    But the GP's point seems to be that this seems to turn into "cryptography we, as a state actor, can win against in a cyberwar, but which ultimately will end up being exploited at home as well, since we're all using the same partially broken code base"
    • derefr 11y ago
      Indeed; maybe it would be better named "export-only cryptography"—not for domestic use by order of COMSEC.