[Cryptography] Photojournalists & filmmakers want cameras, to be encrypted

[Peter Todd]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 10:30:50PM +0000, Ben Laurie wrote:
> > But public key encryption provides another option: encrypt the pix with someone's *public key*; the *private key* is unknown to the photographer.
> >
> > So far as the photographer is concerned, the pix storage is a black hole, which can only be entered by means of the private key.
> >
> > Yes, the storage can be destroyed (if it can be found); thus, it would be better to transmit it in real time -- e.g., ACLU's "Mobile Justice" app for recording police activities.
> >
> > (I don't know if ACLU's "Mobile Justice" app encrypts or not, nor whether it uses PKI if it does encrypt.)
> 
> I guess your one comfort in enhanced interrogation will be that
> there's no way to make it stop.

Don't get too dramatic; there's lots of countries where rule of law is
sufficiently respected that the consequences of being unable to decrypt are
tolerable, while the consequences of being *able* to decrypt are unacceptable.

For starters, most western democracies fall into that category.

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