Encryption Backdoors Debate

There is nothing wrong with these people. Those in the power always want to have more power.There will be no implications if encryption is banned. People have been using unencrypted wired phones and unencrypted bank cards for a long time and the world hasn't collapsed.Also, there is no need to ban any encryption, client-server encryption protocols like HTTPS can stay, provided that the server would log all session keys for future lawful access.

What is your stance on government backdoors in encryption?

The reason you're getting downvoted is it seems like you believe encryption should be illegal unless it has a govt backdoor. Encryption is just math, so it's a hard thing to criminalize and to enforce. Furthermore, if the government has a backdoor to all encrypted data then that means China and Russia and any independent hacker would be also searching for that same backdoor and once they find it everyone's screwed. It's really impractical to think that the government could en

Backdoors for the government into all encrypted services required by law? I don't see what could possibly go wrong.

In a world where they cancel encryption they can't access... doesn't Signal and its CIA funded origins concern you?

There are a few legal reasons: there is a difference in the expectation of privacy when you never actually hand the plaintext message to the server. This is the logical equivalent of a the difference between letter mail and a telegraph. With a telegraph you have no expectation of privacy and therefore no legal right to keep that information secret as opposed to your letter mail. Furthermore, the government cant legally force a company to not insert a backdoor but crack their own security (at lea

Dear EU leaders,There is no "reasonable middle ground" in this issue. Either the encryption works, and it protects the conversation, or it doesn't and it can be broken by both state and private actors, foreign or domestic. It is not like other policies in the phisical world, where a compromise on guns, drugs etc. can be reached that maximize the social welfare. The mathematics of encryption do not allow partial privacy, you either have it, or you don't and when you do, no

Military grade... encryptionGovernment can try what it wants, we've done this before

If you are considered a foreigner they have to break the encryption. If you are US citizen, constitutional restrictions have to be overcome. Nothing lost when encryption is used.

All user data is E2E encrypted, so the government literally cannot force this. This has been the source of numerous disputes [0, 1] that either result in the device itself being cracked [0] (due to weak passwords or vulnerabilities in device-level protection) or governments attempting to ban E2E encryption altogether [1].[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%E2