see url:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4374283-2018-02-05-Technical-Response-to-Rosenstein-Wray.html#document/p15
courtesy via cryptome
An interesting article on the problems of allowing backdoors...I mean
responsible encryption...by US government law enforcement agencies.
Shows some of the pitfalls and also the technical ignorance of the
government proponents Rosenstein and Wray. If introduced it would allow
governments to force encryption vendors to place responsible access
front doors via escrow keys or keys stored by the manufacturer. End to
end encryption would no longer be as safe as it was. It still wouldn't
catch all the targets, because they would use other non-government
accessible encryption methods and software. So once again, the civil
liberties of the ordinary law-abiding citizen would once again be
compromised for some half-baked government, cheap solution which doesn't
work.
There are of course plenty of ways of getting information about a
suspected criminal without the necessity of cracking their phone or
other internet of things such as car data, satnav, or the internet
account details, passing of information over the internet, or back ups
to the cloud.
Well worth a read by those who can spend the time and be bothered to get
their heads around the subject matter. Only 23 pages. Might send a copy
to my M.P. seeing as he is a Big Yin in the government...and from what I
have seen has little or no interest in the subject...apart from
collecting everything....:-)
Enjoy
ATB
Dougie.
