Reply to post: Re: Sigh!

Backdoors won't weaken your encryption, wails FBI boss. And he's right. They won't – they'll fscking torpedo it

bombastic bob Silver badge
Meh

Re: Sigh!

back in the 90's at the time all of that was being debated, politicians were given the clue-bat when a LOT of algorithms were simply "made available" with a big thumb-on-nose to gummints in general.

PGP was described "in prose" and printed on T shirts. you couldn't (LEGALLY) publish the CODE, but you could DESCRIBE HOW TO WRITE IT. Or put it into a printed book. Heh.

Trying to control THAT is IMPOSSIBLE. You'd have to uninvent something. Won't happen.

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