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Riana Pfefferkorn, a Cryptography Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, has published a whitepaper on the risks of so-called "responsible encryption". This refers to inclusion of a mechanism for exceptional access by law enforcement to the cleartext content of encrypted messages. It also goes by the names "back door", "key escrow", and "golden key".
Federal law enforcement officials in the United States have recently renewed their periodic demands for legislation to regulate encryption. While they offer few technical specifics, their general proposal—that vendors must retain the ability to decrypt for law enforcement the devices they manufacture or communications their services transmit—presents intractable problems that would-be regulators must not ignore.
However, with all that said, a lot more is said than done. Some others would make the case that active participation is needed in the democratic process by people knowledgeable in use of actual ICT. As RMS has many times pointed out much to the chagrin of more than a few geeks, "geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone." Again, participation is needed rather than ceding the whole process, and thus its outcome, to the loonies.
Source : New Paper on The Risks of "Responsible Encryption"
Related:
EFF : New National Academy of Sciences Report on Encryption Asks the Wrong Questions
Great, Now There's "Responsible Encryption"
(Score: 4, Informative) by JNCF on Sunday February 18 2018, @02:50PM (9 children)
Or because you want privacy in an age where its illegal.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Grishnakh on Sunday February 18 2018, @04:39PM (8 children)
No, because most of the people you want to communicate with aren't willing to jump through the hoops necessary to make that work. How many people do you know now who use GPG encryption for their emails? None? Steganography is a few orders of magnitude more of a PITA to bother with than that, and the bandwidth it provides is pathetic.
(Score: 2) by JNCF on Sunday February 18 2018, @09:35PM (2 children)
1) Those are technical and socials hurdles of the moment, and they are subject to change.
2) I sometimes encrypt things that I have no desire to communicate with anybody other than future iterations of myself, as an added security precaution. Private keys and personal notes both sometimes fall into the category. If I am paranoid enough to doubt the security of air-gapped machines (I am) then I can desire privacy through encryption sans communication.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Grishnakh on Monday February 19 2018, @02:00AM (1 child)
1) Those are technical and socials hurdles of the moment, and they are subject to change.
Yeah, I'm sure the general public will drop Facebook and Twitter and Windows 10 and free webmail and all start using Linux and GPG real soon now....
(Score: 2) by JNCF on Monday February 19 2018, @02:09PM
I'm surprised how many people I know are using Android and Signal.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 19 2018, @01:40AM
We can't even get email users to use pgp so how will anything else take off?
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday February 19 2018, @02:01AM (2 children)
The fun thing about pathetic bandwidth: people share cat videos all the time, and your average 15 second cat video can conceal hundreds of pages of text very effectively.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 19 2018, @01:28PM (1 child)
What if you want to share your 4K 60fps cat videos with privacy?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 19 2018, @01:58PM
Obvious! Embed it in other cat videos!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 19 2018, @07:23AM
I know three. Two of them stopped, though. And the other one is me.