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According to Whittaker, the bill requires the encrypted messaging app Signal to install so-called backdoors in the software.
minus-squareHSR🏴☠️@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up39·edit-211 hours agoThere needs to be a messaging app which provides a backdoor for every government that requests it. Every time some dumbass legislator asks for a super-giga-secure-backdoor they promise not to misuse, they should be directed to that app.
minus-squareTaleya@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agogoatse.cx used to work wonderfully for that.
minus-squareoldfart@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·8 hours agoImagine the complexity of the encryption algo with 100 different custom made backdoors!
minus-squareJimmycakes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·8 hours agoThat’s the secret you give them all the same backdoor.
minus-squarerumba@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·8 hours agoYou just encrypt it with every key. It’s wasteful, but not all that complicated. At that point, you just don’t encrypt things at all.
There needs to be a messaging app which provides a backdoor for every government that requests it. Every time some dumbass legislator asks for a super-giga-secure-backdoor they promise not to misuse, they should be directed to that app.
goatse.cx used to work wonderfully for that.
Imagine the complexity of the encryption algo with 100 different custom made backdoors!
That’s the secret you give them all the same backdoor.
You just encrypt it with every key. It’s wasteful, but not all that complicated.
At that point, you just don’t encrypt things at all.