[Cryptography] WhatsApp: Why asymmetric key instead of symmetric keys?

[J.M. Porup]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 06:53:57AM +0300, Ismail Kizir wrote:
> Personal privacy is a constitutional right.

A right is a power whose use you can defend by force if necessary.
Absent your ability to defend the right, it vanishes and disappears.

Even the The Universal Declaration of Human Rights makes this clear:

    “Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have
    recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression,
    that human rights should be protected by the rule of law”

https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/index.html

The Constitution was "descriptive law"--it described a power balance
between the state and the people based on the technology of the 1700s.
The printing press and the rifle gave us rights, and the internet
takes them away.

If you do not like living under the current state of tyranny and
oppression, then let's invent new technologies that swing the balance 
back in our favor.

jmp