Re:Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K.?
by rsync on Saturday September 28, 2019 @03:22PM
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"I've said this before, but you can't outlaw the maths."
I don't think this is the right analogy - instead, I think a better statement would be "you can't outlaw random numbers".
A random number and the ciphertext output of a secure encryption algorithm should be indistinguishable.
I don't think I am being naive to think that even in our wildest dystopian nightmares there is no real path from (current jurisprudence in five-eyes jurisdictions) to (random numbers being illegal).
I don't think this is the right analogy - instead, I think a better statement would be "you can't outlaw random numbers".
A random number and the ciphertext output of a secure encryption algorithm should be indistinguishable.
I don't think I am being naive to think that even in our wildest dystopian nightmares there is no real path from (current jurisprudence in five-eyes jurisdictions) to (random numbers being illegal).