Going Dark Crypto Debate Going Nowhere (threatpost.com)

msm1267 writes: FBI general counsel James Baker reiterated a theme his boss James Comey started months ago, that Silicon Valley needs to find a solution to the "Going Dark" encryption problem. Two crypto and security experts, however, pointed out during a security event in Boston that encryption remains the best defense against the government's surveillance overreach and espionage hacking targeting intellectual property. “If we were able to engineer a mechanism where we’re splitting a key and having a third party escrow it where the government could ask for it, the very next thing that would happen is that China et al will ask for the same solution. And we’re unlikely to give them the same solution,” Eric Wenger, director of cybersecurity and privacy, said. “Complexity kills, and the more complex you make a system, the more difficult it is to secure it. I don’t see how developing a key-bases solution secures things the way you want it to without creating a great deal of complexity and having other governments demand the same thing.”

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end-to-end encrypt it all

[Anonymous Coward]

There's no reason for normal email, IMs, video chats, web surfing, etc to be available at all to anybody who isn't among the intended recipients.

These protocols are in the clear for historical reasons: people didn't imagine that the government would be a bad actor. Since they now are, it's time to add strong encryption to all of those things.

The whole internet needs to "go dark" from the perspective of the Stasi fucks.