[Cryptography] WSJ: WH wants to meet Techies in DC re encryption

Tom Mitchell mitch at niftyegg.com
Fri Nov 20 19:28:48 EST 2015


On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Henry Baker <hbaker1 at pipeline.com> wrote:

> FYI -- Perhaps the WH should invite Riemann, Godel & Turing to this
> sit-down ?
>
...

>
> Paris Attacks Fan Encryption Debate



The difficult issue for international companies involves rules for
all nations.  With 192 nations in the UN sharing of secrets becomes
a tangle.    Within each of these 192 is a long list of interested
parties...
In the USA we have 50 state governments, the CIA, the FBI, DHS and
more like the state department.     This is a thousand parties on one
side and hundreds of companies and application vendors on the other side.
Then there are borders and border crossings (multiple).

This is a lot more complex than a key under the mat or in a coffee tin
in a neighbor's garage.

In such a case the number of keepers and holders of keys over time
is so unwieldy that the only good answer lacking magic is to say no.


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  T o m    M i t c h e l l
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