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> There are schemes that would allow for your data to be encrypted and secure from even the cops except in cases where they have a acquir...

> There are schemes that would allow for your data to be encrypted and secure from even the cops except in cases where they have a acquired a warrant. The argument that there is no way to do so is more political than technical. This is a solved problem, cryptographically speaking. It very much is not. All of the schemes that purport to do so involve a systemic risk that the master key is lost to a hostile foreign government or criminal organization, and they inherently prohibit forward secrecy.

Posted by AnthonyMouse on Apr 12, 2015, 5:53 PM

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> There are schemes that would allow for your data to be encrypted and secure from even the cops except in cases where they have a acquir...

AnthonyMouseApr 12, 2015, 5:53 PM

> There are schemes that would allow for your data to be encrypted and secure from even the cops except in cases where they have a acquired a warrant. The argument that there is no way to do so is more political than technical. This is a solved problem, cryptographically speaking. It very much is not. All of the schemes that purport to do so involve a systemic risk that the master key is lost to a hostile foreign government or criminal organization, and they inherently prohibit forward secrecy.

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