CryptoSeal shutters, ala: LavaBit

[coderman]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 9:08 PM, Kelly John Rose <iam at kjro.se> wrote:
> Legally rolling them would defeat the point of the request and thus likely
> out you in contempt.

this is probably true; also yet to be tested in court.



> The only solution is to not have the private key itself available to you and
> design the system such that you don't need it to do the minimal job
> Adminning the server.
>
> It's like having no logs. You can't give away something you don't have. The
> solution is to design the systems so Americans simply don't have access to
> the info being requested.

agreed; this does imply that some services (email!) are forever
vulnerable and thus verboten.  i agree with this as well, though
there's lots of resistance to acceptance of this new reality...