The (current) key is to make the encryption difficult enough to make it not worth the time/effort to crack it. Putting in backdoors for "gov't use" just negates that. Someone will find it easier to just find the backdoor or to phish it from the people who have them. And someone will always succeed because most people (especially gov't employees) are on the left side of the Bell curve.
Bears repeating!
I'm passing this article along to our Global Threat Management, SecOps and Legal folks this morning. I'm certain our GTM and SecOps folks know about this, not sure our Legal folks do.
Can't wait for the EU regulators to demand a backdoor into our systems. We'll pull our data centers in London, Ireland and Luxembourg out of there in a big hurry. We'll fail them over to our U.S. Data Centers and that'll be that.
Stupid politicians.
I’d be interested to know if there are freepers out there who use GPG/PGP.
It’s not good crypto unless the source code for the algorithms are fully documented, preferably by source.