Australia's promised “not-a-backdoor” crypto-busting bill is out and the government has kept its word - it doesn't want a backdoor, just the keys to your front one.
The draft of The Assistance and Access Bill 2018 calls for anyone using or selling communications services in Australia will be subject to police orders for access to private data.
That includes all vendors of computers, phones, apps, social media and cloud services in the Lucky Country, and anyone within national borders using them. These data-tapping orders will be enforced with fines of up to AU$10m (US$7.3m) for companies or $50,000 ($36,368) for individuals
The draft legislation also wants five years in prison for anyone who reveals a data-slurping investigation is going on. And while there's no explicit encryption backdoor requirements in the 110 page draft bill, our first look suggests there doesn't need to be.
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Tuesday August 14 2018, @10:28PM (1 child)
That doesn't make sense to me. Send a decryption key in an encrypted message? It just sounds redundant, but maybe I'm missing something?
jasassin@gmail.com GPG Key ID: 0xE6462C68A9A3DB5A
(Score: 4, Informative) by RamiK on Tuesday August 14 2018, @11:25PM
These sort of schemes fall under mutual authentication. Best known example is kerberos. Some blockchain designs are there explicitly to further decentralize such ticketing servers. Most self-destructing messages are implemented in a similar way.
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