| Please forgive me if I'm misunderstanding the scope of the proposal, but without a modifier "Ban E2E Encryption" would mean: * Any party who is the exclusive holder of the private key of an asymmetric key (and uses it) is basically in violation of the proposed law(s)? * So, literally, someone who uses an SSH-only server (given all data-in-transit is also encrypted) is in violation of the laws (given they aren't willing to provide the private key when asked)? * No more end-to-end encrypted communication with your attorney or physician? * A student project that implements a one-time-pad is illegal now too? * What about encryption that is e2e for all intents and purposes, but is briefly decrypted, then re-encrypted on a zero-log private (proxy) server as one of its hops in the round-trip? * Does this mean quantum encryption is completely banned now? * By that measure, quantum internet is completely illegal, no? * What about the fact this means governments will have to go through hoops to get a special blessing to use it--meaning they'll use it less often in practice (humans)--meaning more of their confidential data will be snooped. How about the fact that traffic that looks like e2e is probably now gov. traffic--making all of that traffic a more identifiable target? I'm obviously preaching to the choir here...the problems abound--would love to hear more y'all hypotheticals that illustrate how garbage this is. |
They are looking for possible solutions to reduce child abuse with the industry, not proposing anything.
It could still be they'll arrive at some problematic proposal later on, but from my reading of the linked documents straight-out breaking/banning E2E encryption is not really on the table.