Reply to post: Why bother?

French, German ministers demand new encryption backdoor law

Bronek Kozicki

Why bother?

To me all such legislators are similar to calls to "establish" the value of pi to be 3.0 . Cryptography is math, you cannot ban math, hence you cannot ban cryptography. The best they can do is to make it difficult for people to use strong cryptography, but "make difficult" is obviously not the same as "prevent".

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