Reply to post: Ah.....the STASI state moves ever closer...and some EL Reg commentards seem to approve!

Ah.....the STASI state moves ever closer...and some EL Reg commentards seem to approve!

Quote #1 (El Reg): "...end-to-end encryption to be banned...."

Quote #2 (doublelayer): "You can't prevent encryption from existing at all, but you can prevent the general public from having access to it."

Quote #3 (Hubert Cumberdale): "Point is, those who are up to no good ... will certainly find a way to use it anyway."

Quote #1: So what? If the end user(s) use private encryption before anything enters a publicy available service, then they have effectively implemented "end-to-end encryption" which could be even harder for "the authorities" to crack....cipher scheme unknown, key management unknown, (potentially) end-points unknown.....so actually worse than a published public service!

Quote #2: So doublelayer is into banning books as well! (See Bruce Schneier, Applied Cryptography)....and banning C programming too!

Quote #3: Sorry Hubert, but some of us law-abiding citizens want to preserve our privacy.....what we communicate is PRIVATE, irrespective of the activities of GCHQ.

Re: All three quotes -- Maybe someone here can decrypt this short message, once they have figured out the private cipher.

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