Here's a question that's been intriguing me a while. What would be the harms of a ban on end-to-end encryption in mass-market products? People feel safe using Gmail and Telegram routinely for sensitive stuff. What argument do you have for E2E for civilians that really resonates?
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Then you don't have end to end encryption. End to end means only my device and yours have the keys to decrypt the messages i send to you. No in between service can read it.
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The only way to make a backdoor work in that scenario is either register the keys somewhere centrally, which becomes a massive security hole; or use a broken encryption algorithm, which completely breaks the point.
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apps, maybe, but how do you ban *all websites* when a website could implement the same protocols? Just open a browser to bypass that law
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note that whatsapp would have the same network in a browser that they do in an app. It would arguably stunt future growth somewhat, but other than that, same service, same network effects
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How do you ban the distribution of non-compliant chat apps when sideloading is a thing? For that matter, how do you stop hidden encrypted chat functionality in non-chat apps? Remember Apple playing whack-a-mole w/apps that provided hidden wifi tethering functionality? Won’t work.
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The backdoor itself is possible but if a master key exists it will never be controllable and makes forward secrecy useless.
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