Attorney general: Americans should accept security risks of encryption backdoors

Re:Attorney general: Americans should accept security risks ... by danShumway on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @01:37PM (#20508576)

I can think of setups that would allow this, but I don't understand what the advantage would be over sharing keys.

Honest question, if I have a key that can unencrypt all of your data, why is it important that it not literally be your key?

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Re:Attorney general: Americans should accept security risks ... by extropy on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @01:50PM (#20508690)

It's useful to have a master key that decrypts everything. For each message that means encrypting for two keys - the recepient and the master key.

The obvious drawback being the huge damage when a master key is inevitably leaked.

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Re:Attorney general: Americans should accept security risks ... by scarejunba on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @01:50PM (#20508683)

Because then I need a way of giving you my key that doesn’t give the bad guy the key.

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