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by jp42 856 days ago
Recently read The Making of Atomic Bomb & Skunkworks. Govt puts enormous amount of money & employees best people in given area to achieve their objectives. It's hard for me to imagine govt will be ok to have tech that they can't crack, they will find a way to crack. I am not saying we should be OK with it, but I don't see a path to make it happen. It can be made difficult with E2E and other tech but not impossible.
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It’s mathematically impossible to crack the technology of E2EE. But govts have all the power to coerce the companies into not using E2EE at all times and to lie that they do.
It's conjectured, but not proven, that there is no efficient algorithm on classical computers to compute discrete logarithms over elliptic curves.