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by mirhagk
3605 days ago
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That won't solve the problem > Slapping unbreakable crypto onto more and more packets is just going to make matters worse
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> The IT and networking communities overlooked a wise saying from soldiers and police officers: "Make sure the other side has an easier way out than destroying you." Who is developing this stronger encryption? The development of encryption has a huge incentive to build backdoors for payouts by government or corporate or worse groups. Then you have the people implementing the encryption that could also introduce backdoors (who knows if heartbleed was intentional or not). Then you have lots of other ways to backdoor the system, from default software installs, viruses, or even compiler or CPU backdooring. There is no such thing as a system that has perfect security. Even if you build everything yourself and are perfect at doing so, the tools you use could easily have backdoors. By increasing usage of encryption for more and more mundane things all we're doing is increasing the incentive to break that encryption. |
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