[Cryptography] Publicly affirm your support for strong encryption

Henry Baker hbaker1 at pipeline.com
Mon Oct 5 11:00:37 EDT 2015


FYI -- 30k signatures this morning; need to get to 100k ASAP.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov//petition/publicly-affirm-your-support-strong-encryption

we petition the obama administration to:

Publicly affirm your support for strong encryption.

Reject any law, policy, or mandate that would undermine our security.

The government should not erode the security of our devices or applications, pressure companies to keep and allow government access to our data, mandate implementation of vulnerabilities or backdoors into products, or have disproportionate access to the keys to private data.

We demand privacy, security, and integrity for our communications and systems.  As a public, we should be confident that the services we use haven’t been weakened or compromised by government mandate or pressure.  No legislation, executive order, or private agreement with the government should undermine our rights.

Weakening encryption weakens the entire Internet.  Please endorse strong encryption, and encourage other world leaders to do the same.

Published Date: Sep 29, 2015



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