No Matter What the FBI Says, Compromising Encryption Is a Technical Issue

Re:No Matter What the FBI Says, Compromising Encryption Is a... by sillysaurus3 on Thursday December 10, 2015 @12:18AM (#10709031)

One good thing to consider is that the EFF and the FBI both recognize that encryption can be an evil thing and that actions need to be taken to protect the citizens and the government that serves them.

It's not a useful classification. Encryption can be used for evil, just as everything else in the world can.

Comey calls it a non-technical issue simply because he thinks the solution ought to be left to the technical people at each company, and that in principle, regardless of encryption strength, these companies should offer a way to help the FBI in these exceptional instances.

There's a difference between leaving it to technical people to help, and forcing technical people to help. Legislation is the route to the latter.

There is no way for technical people to help against a good cryptosystem unless that cryptosystem has been subverted from the start. This is the new world we live in, and it's up to law enforcement to either recognize that fact, or weaken American encryption relative to the rest of the world, with predictable consequences.

EDIT: "The Horror of a 'Secure Golden Key'" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8428632

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Re:No Matter What the FBI Says, Compromising Encryption Is a... by NotSammyHagar on Thursday December 10, 2015 @12:29PM (#10711892)

Everything can be bad, even water can be bad. You need it to live, but then my America, sadly tortured people with it (waterboarding).

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