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Government access doesn't require a backdoor per-se, does it? Can't you encrypt something with two public keys, such that either associated private key alone ca
by sliverstorm 11y ago
Government access doesn't require a backdoor per-se, does it? Can't you encrypt something with two public keys, such that either associated private key alone can decrypt?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/597188/encryption-with-multiple-different-keys http://stackoverflow.com/questions/597188/encryption-with-mu...
Multi-encrypt the harddrive with YourPubKey & SpooksPubKey, and viola. The spooks have access, without giving criminals access (unless they steal SpooksPrivateKey, but is that any more risky than theft of YourPrivateKey?)
- junto 11y agoThe problem here is that the NSA are also in the business of corporate espionage. They spy on US competitors and give the ideas and patentable concepts to US companies. Therefore any company that is not American should shun such products like it is a herpes ridden whore.
- sliverstorm 11y agoThat's completely tangent to the point; allowing government access does not require the purposeful introduction of vulnerabilities.
- junto 11y agoNot at all. The BND in Germany have been shown to have been complicit in corporate espionage on behalf of the NSA on German companies. That's why dual key (government access) aren't to be trusted.
- sliverstorm 11y agoDid I say the government was to be trusted?