[Cryptography] Current Crypto War
Henry Baker
hbaker1 at pipeline.com
Tue Jul 7 14:02:36 EDT 2015
FYI -- Beware of little (6'8") boys who cry "Lone Wolf":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Comey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Cried_Wolf
Required reading before tomorrow:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/08/technology/code-specialists-oppose-us-and-british-government-access-to-encrypted-communication.html
http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/97690/MIT-CSAIL-TR-2015-026.pdf
Keys Under Doormats: Mandating insecurity by requiring government access to all data and communications
Harold Abelson, Ross Anderson, Steven M. Bellovin,
Josh Benaloh, Whitfield Diffie, John Gilmore,
Matthew Green, Peter G. Neumann, Susan Landau,
Ronald L. Rivest, Jeffrey I. Schiller, Bruce Schneier,
Michael Specter, and Daniel J. Weitzner
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