Reply to post: Re: The problem is...

Prez Obama snubs UK PM's tough anti-encryption crusade at White House meet

streaky

Re: The problem is...

Well look at the track record. Skype has end to end encryption, but they happily share the encryption keys with everyone claiming to have something like a warrant.

Most of these cases are fairly well documented. I don't think it's ethical for skype to exist in that environment - you take your chances, it does economic damage or it doesn't.

You can't back-door OpenSSL, you can't back-door PGP, you can't back-door TOR. PFS destroys the usefulness of handing over keys. They can do what they want but we get no more security for active and significant (financial and actual due to security weakness) harm to UK (and considering your link) US business - people can go elsewhere and not have this problem. The inability to validate Microsoft's crypto stack is doing them actual harm right now, today - same Apple; imagine what it would be like if people knew for a fact there was an issue with say Microsoft's RNG as opposed to conjecture - good luck share price. If they could somehow manage to tame Linux (and given most distros are moving towards reproducible binaries - good luck) people would just push untamed sources. Cat, meet bag.

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