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How Would Crypto Back Doors Work?

Posted by Hemos on from the what-goes-into-it dept.

frantzdb writes "We've been hearing about adding crypto back doors for the govement to snoop on us, but how would they work? Would there be one key that could be cracked opening up all such traffic? Also, how would/does the government know wether a bitstream is random bits, or encrypted data?"

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