19 Jan
2016
19 Jan
'16
3:30 a.m.
On Mon, 2016-01-11 at 22:15 -0800, Alex Stahl wrote:
Second, he implied that, with the use of these policies, if a message were to traverse a network with nodes operated by the US, Canada, Egypt, India, Pakistan, Iran, Russia, China and Japan, it would require the admins from those countries to all agree to decrypt, turning the solution into a political - not mathematical - one.
The whole point of cryptography is to be secure against political problems such as this. Despite whatever good Chaum may be known for, this is bad, and not something I will ever use if I can possibly help it.
-- Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn@rushpost.com>