The EFF addresses some shortcomings in the recent report to policy makers by the National Academies of Sciences (NAS) on encryption.
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) released a much-anticipated report yesterday that attempts to influence the encryption debate by proposing a "framework for decisionmakers." At best, the report is unhelpful. At worst, its framing makes the task of defending encryption harder.
The report collapses the question of whether the government should mandate "exceptional access" to the contents of encrypted communications with how the government could accomplish this mandate. We wish the report gave as much weight to the benefits of encryption and risks that exceptional access poses to everyone's civil liberties as it does to the needs—real and professed—of law enforcement and the intelligence community.
The report via the link in the quote above is available free of charge but holds several hoops to hop through between you and the final PDF. The EFF recognizes that the NAS report was undertaken in good faith, but identifies two main points of contention with the final product. Specifically, the framing is problematic and the discussion of the possible risks to civil liberties is quite brief.
Source : New National Academy of Sciences Report on Encryption Asks the Wrong Questions
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday February 19 2018, @07:03AM
"Will"? Has already, at least in the 51st state, so I presumed it had in the original 50 states too. If encryption is fine, but you are obliged to release your keys when handed a warrent, then they are saying encryption is illegal. Because if you refuse and keep your keys private, will go to jail. There's no way else that can be interpretted except as private communication being illegal.
Personally, that disgusts me, and I would be prepared to take a stand and to cling to my keys with at least as much resolve as the NRA cling to their murder tubes. If I'm asked to decode H4sIAEd2iloCA3MrTc5WKMlIVchJLNdRyCxRL1ZIzFNILC5W5AIAIZXpARsAAAA= my response will be simply
It means capital-h four lower-case-s capital-I capital-A ...
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