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Dutch Government Backs Strong Encryption, Condemns Backdoors

Posted by samzenpus on from the lock-it-down dept.

blottsie writes: The Netherlands government issued a strong statement on Monday against weakening encryption for the purposes of law enforcement and intelligence agencies. The move comes as governments in the United Kingdom and China act to legally require companies to give them access to wide swaths of encrypted Internet traffic. U.S. lawmakers are also considering introducing similar legislation.

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  1. What authority? by sanf780 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Dutch legislation is not really relevant, I would say. If most software is coming from the US, including OS from Microsoft, Apple and Google, how are you supposed to enforce adequate encription if the US mandates weaker versions? Is it going to be the GNU/Linux on the Dutch Desktop during 2016?

    1. Re:What authority? by bytesex · · Score: 3, Informative

      AES and SHA-3 were (partly) conceived in Belgium. Legislation is one thing - inventing the technology is something else.

      Yeah I know Belgium and the Netherlands are not the same country. I live in one of them. I was trying to make a point.

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  2. Re:Netherlands government: Sensible, not corrupt. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually quite a lot since it has on of the largest, if not largest, internet exchange points: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_exchange_points_by_size