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Re:Senator asks FBI director to name the cryptographers who ... by philipwhiuk on Thursday January 25, 2018 @04:18PM (#16234770)
Who would be allowed? Every FBI agent? Just the chief? Even if you could restrict it - thousands of government related figures in the FBI, NSA, DHS, TSA and elsewhere would want the key.
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Re:Senator asks FBI director to name the cryptographers who ... by StanislavPetrov on Thursday January 25, 2018 @04:24PM (#16234806)
That entirely misses the point. The whole idea behind the existence of a "key" means that the key can either be mishandled, stolen, or independently discovered, rendering cryptography inherently insecure.
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Re:Senator asks FBI director to name the cryptographers who ... by cvwright on Thursday January 25, 2018 @04:38PM (#16234922)
Well, the one idea we have now is to limit it to whoever can authorize spending thousands or millions of dollars in electricity to solve a computational puzzle that recovers the key.

In practice, I'd like to see it require judicial oversight to release the funds.

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Re:Senator asks FBI director to name the cryptographers who ... by yarrel on Thursday January 25, 2018 @06:14PM (#16235660)
How will you ensure that botnets are brought under judicial oversight?
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