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Re:As Feds Demand the Keys, Preparing for the Death of Publi... by toddsiegel on Thursday July 25, 2013 @04:26PM (#6104742)
Agreed. Public-key cryptography is fine. Entrusting third parties to protect your privacy is dying.

This is something I have been thinking about a lot lately. Users need to take more responsibility for guarding their own privacy. I think there are a lots of business opportunities here: easy to use tools that keep control entirely in Alice's and Bob's hands and public key cryptography is certainly part of the solution.

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Re:As Feds Demand the Keys, Preparing for the Death of Publi... by christo on Thursday July 25, 2013 @09:37PM (#6106115)
The fact that the agencies have to apply pressure to obtain keys proves that the crypto is working.

Therefore, if you have, use and keep secret your own keys, the best-resourced intruders cannot practicably get your data.

Of course, http://xkcd.com/538/

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Re:As Feds Demand the Keys, Preparing for the Death of Publi... by ctdonath on Thursday July 25, 2013 @10:46PM (#6106284)
AKA rubber hose cryptanalysis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-hose_cryptanalysis
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Re:As Feds Demand the Keys, Preparing for the Death of Publi... by state on Thursday July 25, 2013 @05:04PM (#6104969)
I've been thinking quite a lot about that exact thing as well. There must be a way to build great commercial tools that are also truly secure. I'd love to discuss further. Contact info in my profile.
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Re:As Feds Demand the Keys, Preparing for the Death of Publi... by e3pi on Thursday July 25, 2013 @11:43PM (#6106452)
> state 6 hours ago | link | parent | flag

> I've been thinking quite a lot about that exact thing as well. There must be a way to build great commercial tools that are also truly secure. I'd love to discuss further. Contact info in my profile.

'state', to solicit this collaboration, would it not be prudent to init a new HN account under a different name?

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