Matt Blaze

On balance, the use of encryption, just like the use of good locks on doors, has the net effect of preventing a…

— Matt Blaze

The security of computers and the Internet is a horrible and dangerous mess. Every week we hear about breaches of databases of…

— Matt Blaze

As the local police department might want to decrypt a phone of a criminal suspect, so would the Chinese or the Russian…

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In order for any smartphone manufacturer to decrypt the data on your phone, it has to hold onto a secret that lets…

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There's been a certain amount of opportunism in the wake of the Paris attacks in 2015, when there was almost a reflexive…

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So, in 1993, in what was probably the first salvo of the first Crypto War, there was concern coming from the National…

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If it were possible to hold onto this sort of database and really be assured that only good guys get access to…

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I believed then, and continue to believe now, that the benefits to our security and freedom of widely available cryptography far, far…

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I think it's interesting because the 1990s ended with the government pretty much giving up. There was a recognition that encryption was…

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Telephone handsets are particularly in need of built-in security. We have almost every aspect of our personal and work lives reflected on…

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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

Computer science doesn't know how to build complex systems that work reliably. This has been a well-understood problem since the very beginning…

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The perspective that law enforcement is presenting seems to be a very narrow one that's focused very, very heavily on investigations of…

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We basically have only two real tried and true techniques that can help counter this. One of them is to make systems…

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The people working in my field also are quite skeptical of our ability to do this. It ultimately boils down to the…

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It's only after you get down into the technical weeds - and they are admittedly rather weedy - that it becomes clear…

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As we build systems that are more and more complex, we make more and more subtle but very high-impact mistakes. As we…

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What encryption lets us do is say, "Yes, the Internet is insecure." Bad guys are able to compromise computers everywhere, but we're…

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Clipper took a relatively simple problem, encryption between two phones, and turned it into a much more complex problem, encryption between two…

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When the September 11th attacks happened, only about a year later, the crypto community was holding its breath because here was a…

— Matt Blaze

If we try to prohibit encryption or discourage it or make it more difficult to use, we're going to suffer the consequences…

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It may be true that encryption makes certain investigations of crime more difficult. It can close down certain investigative techniques or make…

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