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Crypto Experts Blast Gov't Backdoors For Encryption
loid_void writes with a link to a New York Times report about some of the world's best-known cryptography experts, who have prepared a report which concludes that there is
no viable technical solution which "would allow the American and British governments to gain "exceptional access" to encrypted communications without putting the world's most confidential data and critical infrastructure in danger." From the article:
[T]he government’s plans could affect the technology used to lock financial institutions and medical data, and poke a hole in mobile devices and the countless other critical systems — including pipelines, nuclear facilities, the power grid — that are moving online rapidly. ...
“The problems now are much worse than they were in 1997,” said Peter G. Neumann, a co-author of both the 1997 report and the new paper, who is a computer security pioneer at SRI International, the Silicon Valley research laboratory. “There are more vulnerabilities than ever, more ways to exploit them than ever, and now the government wants to dumb everything down further.”
The authors include Neumann, Harold Abelson, Susan Landau, and Bruce Schneier.
The Clipper chip was designed by the NSA and had a government-sponsored backdoor. Unsurprisingly, it failed.
People still buy Master locks.
That was before oogie boogie terrists. Most of the plebes will fall in line now. Witness the scare up before july 4th to keep the fears alive.
Silence is a state of mime.
Thus, claiming Edward Snowden sold documents to the Russians/Chinese amounts to a blatant lie.