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Techdirt covers a new paper published by the US National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine regarding the general access that the FBI and DOJ want to encrypted communications.
Another paper has been released, adding to the current encryption discussion. The FBI and DOJ want access to the contents of locked devices. They call encryption that can be bypassed by law enforcement "responsible encryption." It isn't. A recent paper by cryptograpghy expert Riana Pfefferkorn explained in detail how irresponsible these suggestions for broken or weakened encryption are.
This new paper [PDF] was put together by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. (h/t Lawfare) It covers a lot of ground others have and rehashes the history of encryption, along with many of the pro/con arguments. That said, it's still worth reading. It raises some good questions and spends a great deal of time discussing the multitude of options law enforcement has available, but which are ignored by FBI officials when discussing the backdoors/key escrow/weakened encryption they'd rather have.
The paper's suggestions have not been rigorously investigated by those with domain expertise, yet.
Source : Report On Device Encryption Suggests A Few Ways Forward For Law Enforcement
(Score: 2) by canopic jug on Sunday February 25 2018, @09:30AM
Any keys to back doors would probably be leaked within a month, appear in everyone's sig, people would have them tattooed.
At least that't the theory. But is that actually true?
I'll defer to the recognized specialists on that, and they assert unamiously that the backdoors would inevitably be leaked in short order.
I notice that the data breaches around the world show that the chance of holding backdoor keys secret would be close to zero if the same companies and technologies and companies would be involved. Maybe there is a parallel set of established, but secret, companies that will show up any moment and make themsevels known. But the current ones cannot do the job. Perhaps the various governments are holding out on us and have something magical that does exactly the task that all recognized cryptography experts assert is impossible. But that is most unlikely given how much they are begging, pleading, cajoling, and threatening the different ICT-related industries over the matter. Actions speak quite loudly.
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