Re:Hashing is not encryption
by axiosgunnar on Sunday January 09, 2022 @09:10AM
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Interesting post but stuff like
> From a regulatory and legal perspective, this means that if you want to ban strong encryption, you must ban cryptographic hash functions.
aka „you can't ban math! ha!“ is just a nerd dream.
The government would simply ban Whatsapp etc from implementing E2E encryption, something that is completely feasible, and 99% of the population‘s communications would be unencrypted.
> From a regulatory and legal perspective, this means that if you want to ban strong encryption, you must ban cryptographic hash functions.
aka „you can't ban math! ha!“ is just a nerd dream.
The government would simply ban Whatsapp etc from implementing E2E encryption, something that is completely feasible, and 99% of the population‘s communications would be unencrypted.