It may be true that encryption makes certain investigations of crime more difficult. It can close down certain investigative techniques or make it harder to get access to certain kinds of electronic evidence. But it also prevents crime by making… — Matt Blaze Copy Share Image
Clipper took a relatively simple problem, encryption between two phones, and turned it into a much more complex problem, encryption between two phones but that can be decrypted by the government under certain conditions and, by making the problem that complicated, that made it very easy for subtle flaws to slip by unnoticed. I think it demonstrated that this problem… — Matt Blaze Copy Share
I think it's interesting because the 1990s ended with the government pretty much giving up. There was a recognition that encryption was important. In… — Matt Blaze Copy Share Image
I believed then, and continue to believe now, that the benefits to our security and freedom of widely available cryptography far, far outweigh the inevitable damage that comes from its use by criminals and terrorists. I believed, and continue to believe, that the arguments against widely available cryptography, while certainly advanced by people of good will, did not hold up… — Matt Blaze Copy Share
On balance, the use of encryption, just like the use of good locks on doors, has the net effect of preventing a lot more… — Matt Blaze Copy Share Image
So, in 1993, in what was probably the first salvo of the first Crypto War, there was concern coming from the National Security Agency and the FBI that encryption would soon be incorporated into lots of communications devices, and that that would cause wiretaps to go dark. There was not that much commercial use of encryption at that point. Encryption,… — Matt Blaze Copy Share
As the local police department might want to decrypt a phone of a criminal suspect, so would the Chinese or the Russian or the… — Matt Blaze Copy Share Image
In order for any smartphone manufacturer to decrypt the data on your phone, it has to hold onto a secret that lets it get… — Matt Blaze Copy Share Image
The security of computers and the Internet is a horrible and dangerous mess. Every week we hear about breaches of databases of Social Security… — Matt Blaze Copy Share Image
From a policymaker's point of view, [the back door] must look like a perfect solution. "We'll hold onto a separate copy of the keys, and we'll try to keep them really, really safe so that only in an emergency and if it's authorized by a court will we bring out those keys and use them." And, from a policy point… — Matt Blaze Copy Share
There's been a certain amount of opportunism in the wake of the Paris attacks in 2015, when there was almost a reflexive assumption that,… — Matt Blaze Copy Share Image
Telephone handsets are particularly in need of built-in security. We have almost every aspect of our personal and work lives reflected on them and… — Matt Blaze Copy Share Image
If it were possible to hold onto this sort of database and really be assured that only good guys get access to it, we… — Matt Blaze Copy Share Image
