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Oz government rushes its anti-crypto legislation into parliament

johnrobyclayton

I have been thinking

Elected governments can only promote legislation that can be understood by, and desired by the voters.

There are plenty of technical people that know and understand the futility of effectively controlling decent encryption technologies.

But there a lot more people that do not understand the impossibility.

Therefore elected governments have to say silly things like the law of the land overrules the laws of mathematics even though that is cringe worthy.

What is needed is a description and demonstration of a secure communication infrastructure that is as impossible for any governments to effectively control as possible. This needs to be as simple in the individual operational elements as possible. There may be a lot of operational elements but if each piece is simple enough then a lot more people will be able to understand it.

I have been writing up something to do this as a hobby for the last couple of years.

Its a bit of a read and is a work in progress but I think that there is enough for sharing.

I have been using a github wiki for this:

https://github.com/johnrobyclayton/SecureCommunicationsInfrastructure/wiki

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