Re:EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf]
by sjy on Monday November 09, 2020 @07:16AM
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I don't see any proposal to "weaken protocols." Why would the government try to mandate the use of provably unsound end-to-end encryption, weakening security for everyone, when it could just order Apple and Google to spy on the user's end, which they control?
It so happens that there's no point in taking out a warrant against the man-in-the-middle, because he has no access to begin with.
You'll have to get a warrant against one of the ends.
What these proposals would end up doing is to force people to weaken protocols and start spying as a man-in-the-middle, just so that they can be targeted by a warrant.
This is just a little bit silly, I feel; and doesn't really help anyone. I don't think that authorities realize that that is what they're asking for. Usually when it gets explained to them, sooner or later they relent. And then a few years later someone replaces them, and it happens all over again.