From a policymaker's point of view, [the back door] must look like a perfect solution. "We'll hold onto a separate copy of… — 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… — Matt Blaze Copy Share Image
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… — Matt Blaze Copy Share Image
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… — Matt Blaze Copy Share Image
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,… — Matt Blaze Copy Share Image
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
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