Reply to post: Misdirection........again...............

UK.gov is launching an anti-Facebook encryption push. Don't think of the children: Think of the nuances and edge cases instead

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Misdirection........again...............

Quote: "The British government is preparing to launch a full-scale policy assault against Facebook as the company gears up to introduce end-to-end encryption across all of its services......"

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My approach is to encrypt messages BEFORE THEY ENTER ANY CHANNEL.

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And use Diffie-Hellman to agree a random secret key for every message -- WITHOUT ANY KEY EXCHANGE (see Diffie-Hellman, 1976). Unlike PGP, this method has NO PERMANENT PUBLIC/PRIVATE KEY PAIRS.

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So........it DOESN'T MATTER if FB (or Twitter, or Proton, or Telegram) implement so-called "end-to-end encryption".....if there's a backdoor (of course there's a backdoor!!!).....then all the snoops will find is my IDEA encrypted message. It might be a photograph....it might be a birthday greeting.....and if the plod turn up and ask me what's going on, I can quite truthfully say the keys were randomly chosen by the software and were destroyed after the message was sent and/or received.

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Does anyone really think that this sort of process is beyond the reach of the "bad guys"? So......as I've said before......simple misdirection. More snooping on the 99% of the citizens who are doing absolutely nothing wrong!!!

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