The EU is set to declare war on encryption

Re:The EU is set to declare war on encryption by upofadown on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @12:46PM (#24569016)

>If you want to enable communication where both parties don't need to be online at the same time, and with easy setup of a trusted system, you will need something very much like the signal protocol.

PGP and S/MIME would like a word. Note that PGP is used routinely on the darknets for pasting orders into a web form. There are several detailed howtos available.

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Re:The EU is set to declare war on encryption by rocqua on Thursday September 24, 2020 @05:30AM (#24576852)

PGP and S/MIME are widely considered as insufficient.

Certainly, they existed for a long time, and yet it did not seem to impede police investigations. Whilst I don't think the current complaints aren't exaggerated I do believe police when they say "Because of whatsapp, we are hitting cases where we would normally send a warrant, but now we can't". This wasn't the case before with PGP, and with decent reasons. (PGP is not very user friendly)

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Re:The EU is set to declare war on encryption by upofadown on Thursday September 24, 2020 @06:54AM (#24577300)

>PGP and S/MIME are widely considered as insufficient.

I am pretty sure that the darknet users would use something better if it was available. In what ways is it insufficient?

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