[Cryptography] Text of Burr-Feinstein encryption backdoor bill

[Tom Mitchell]

On Saturday, April 9, 2016, Benjamin Kreuter <brk7bx at virginia.edu> wrote:

> On Fri, 2016-04-08 at 11:44 -0700, Bill Cox wrote:
> > It has no exceptions for open-source,
>
> It is worse than that; it would basically ban open source projects in
> the US.  At the end of section 3 there is a requirement that anyone who
> distributes software must vet that software for compliance.


Also processors with AES accelerators specially designed for encryption.
Can any decrypt AES... .
Accelerators for CODECS and GPUs ....
This covers nearly all hardware manufactured today.

FPGAs seem impossible to classify...

The currently secret blobs of microcode for all the modern processors need
to be opened.

Hardware documentation and binary blobs could no longer be opaque.
Opaque binary blobs for undocumented hardware cannot be vetted.

All possible entry points in code including "dead" code in dusty decks ....
Documented public ABI/API interfaces are not sufficient.

Sadly Feinstein seems to suffer PTSD.... And magical
thinking....(delusional) ...
Or this is a fiction ....





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