• According to Whittaker, the bill requires the encrypted messaging app Signal to install so-called backdoors in the software.
  • HSR🏴‍☠️@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 hours ago

    There needs to be a messaging app which provides a backdoor for every government that requests it. Every time some dumbass legislator asks for a super-giga-secure-backdoor they promise not to misuse, they should be directed to that app.

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      2 hours ago

      Imagine the complexity of the encryption algo with 100 different custom made backdoors!

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        2 hours ago

        You just encrypt it with every key. It’s wasteful, but not all that complicated.

        At that point, you just don’t encrypt things at all.