Reply to post: Re: Wack a Mole

Re: Wack a Mole

Couple of things:

1. The article says that governments "claim that their inability to lawfully access encrypted content risks undermining democratic justice systems". Well, well, well.....and I suppose these same governments are following EVERY PART of national and international law. If you believe this, perhaps you should study the Snowden papers....or maybe this one reference will do for now:

- https://theintercept.com/2014/12/13/belgacom-hack-gchq-inside-story/

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2. @JohnFen Home brewed crypto is "easily broken". Well that may be true, but there's an interesting asymmetry here - plod will take some time to break a "home brewed" crypto, while the users can use the communication immediately. Take a book cipher for instance. Here's a short message in a "home brewed" book cipher -- what does the plain text say?

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2E1D55597C5F0481C74D01C6A154F52B8DB1C6F9

618793A06A0DA1908AC4364A8282525778660394

27A1C137E00A8FE1628C647D648F2065EB20F534

18FD06F1DD302262309F401A00BDFA69A2140F10

30AC84C979701C53F4F073AA522D285DA236A21C

2BC56425136643B6B9506A88D1B5B567C96056EF

3A9372601F586C72668934F842163B3DE2F4ECFF