From marsh@extendedsubset.com Fri Jul 6 02:32:23 2018 From: Marsh Ray To: cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org Subject: [cryptography] Key escrow 2012 Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 02:32:23 +0000 Message-ID: <172289271998.3881296.7825740154249242146.generated@mail.pglaf.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============6649276598930514871==" --===============6649276598930514871== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (Nod to the rest of what you said) On 03/25/2012 11:45 AM, Benjamin Kreuter wrote: > The US government still wants a > system where encrypted communications can be arbitrarily decrypted, > they just dress up the argument and avoid using dirty words like "key > escrow." Aside from the deep moral and constitutional problems it poses, does anyone think the US Govt could have that even from a practical perspective? * Some of the largest supercomputers in the world are botnets or are held by strategic competitor countries. This precludes the old key shortening trick. * The Sony PS3 and HDMI cases show just how hard it can be to keep a master key secure sometimes. Master keys could be quite well protected, but from a policy perspective it's still a gamble that something won't go wrong which compromises everyone's real security (cause a public scandal, expose industrial secrets, etc.). * Am I correct in thinking that computing additional trapdoor functions to enable USG/TLA/LEA decryption is not free? Mobile devices are becoming the primary computing devices for many. People may be willing to pay XX% in taxes, but nobody wants to pay a decrease in performance and battery life to enable such a misfeature. - Marsh _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography(a)randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl leitl http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE --===============6649276598930514871==--