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FBI Director: Without Compromise on Encryption, Legislation May be the 'Remedy'

posted by mrpg on Sunday July 22 2018, @07:40PM   
from the my-opinion-is-encrypted dept.

MrPlow writes:

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FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday that unless the U.S. government and private industry are able to come to a compromise on the issue of default encryption on consumer devices, legislation may be how the debate is ultimately decided.

"I think there should be [room for compromise]," Wray said Wednesday night at a national security conference in Aspen, Colorado. "I don't want to characterize private conversations we're having with people in the industry. We're not there yet for sure. And if we can't get there, there may be other remedies, like legislation, that would have to come to bear."

Wray described the issue of “Going Dark” because of encryption as a "significant" and "growing" problem for federal, state and local law enforcement as well as foreign law enforcement and intelligence agencies. He claims strong encryption on mobile phones keeps law enforcement from gaining access to key evidence as it relates to active criminal investigations.

Source: FBI director: Without compromise on encryption, legislation may be the 'remedy'

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• brute force brute force (Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Monday July 23 2018, @10:54AM (1 child)

  by Phoenix666 (552) on Monday July 23 2018, @10:54AM (#711155) Journal

  Perhaps those more au courant with the state of the art in cryptography can chime in, but doesn't the federal government have the resources to brute force the encryption on targeted suspects they have properly obtained warrants for? Let's assume that we're talking about honestly encrypted, not fake-encrypted using compromised software or hardware.

  Yes, they probably don't have the resources to mass-decrypt everyone's communications, properly encrypted, but then they're not supposed to be doing that anyway.

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  Washington DC delenda est.

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• Re:brute force (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 23 2018, @05:39PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 23 2018, @05:39PM (#711338)

  https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/79319/brute-forcing-luks-full-disk-encryption-time [stackexchange.com]

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