Re:The EU is set to declare war on encryption
by ergl on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @12:16PM
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You don't need to ban math to ban e2e encryption in the same way you don't need to ban physics in order to ban murder. You pass a law making it a crime to develop or use e2e encryption algorithms, and punish those who don't follow the law extremely harshly. The rest will comply because they'll be scared to be punished.
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Re:The EU is set to declare war on encryption
by ben_w on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @02:13PM
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A criminal org doesn’t need end-to-end encryption to be untouchable by the authorities, all it needs is an HTTPS web server with a login page. Those are cheap enough that any organisation with at least one full-time-equivalent person on their payroll can afford to change server every week.
The advantage of e2e is so a central chat server can’t be ordered to leak secrets; I can’t see how an org which doesn’t care about the law in general is going to care about that law in particular.