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Re:The Belgian government has removed ‘backdoor requirement’... by ttybird2 on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @11:26AM (#29638916)
"We should be striving for designing cryptographic systems which allow for governments to be conditionally able to decrypt messages."

No, we really shouldn't.

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Re:The Belgian government has removed ‘backdoor requirement’... by charcircuit on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @08:20PM (#29644402)
At least it should be done instead of thinking that you need to "add a backdoor" or "ban encryption."
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Re:The Belgian government has removed ‘backdoor requirement’... by ttybird2 on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @10:33PM (#29645331)
Sounds like a backdoor to me though.
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Re:The Belgian government has removed ‘backdoor requirement’... by charcircuit on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @12:05AM (#29645786)
A backdoor is a secret way to gain access to a system. I propose that we explicitly design our system to give them access. It wouldn't be a secret that they could get access to the information they needed under certain circumstances.
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Re:The Belgian government has removed ‘backdoor requirement’... by ttybird2 on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @01:13AM (#29646072)
Fair enough, but I still think that we should not :)
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