Senator asks FBI director to name the cryptographers who support backdoors

Re:Senator asks FBI director to name the cryptographers who ... by jhayward on Thursday January 25, 2018 @03:17PM (#16234216)

> Do they really want only a limited ability to access encrypted data? Again, I don't know.

These arguments were all hashed out in the 1990's CALEA discussions. Assertions were made to "Trust Us", only limited use of the automated phone tapping requirements are envisioned.

A few years later the CALEA technical requirements for tapping capacity were published.

If I recall correctly (these are old bits), the capacity for the number of concurrent taps the FBI required for Manhattan was approximately the number of simultaneous off-hook phone lines expected for that size population. In other words, "capture it all".

That's how "limited use" tends to go.

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Re:Senator asks FBI director to name the cryptographers who ... by cvwright on Thursday January 25, 2018 @05:47PM (#16235459)

Yeah it's never going to work if the approach is "trust us" or any kind of "limited use" that requires restraint from the humans supposedly being limited.

We need strong technical limitations, on par with the strength of the crypto we use today.

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