[Cryptography] Chaum Has a Plan to End the Crypto War

[Peter Gutmann]

Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster at mykolab.com> quotes:

>Tweet of The Week:
>
>"Security experts: Backdoors weaken security. They're a bad idea."
>"Chaum: I've built a new system with a backdoor."
>"FBI: See? It is possible."
>    — Christopher Soghoian (@csoghoian) January 6, 2016

The counterargument to that would be, somewhat unfortunately, "don't worry,
this guy has a multi-decade track record of proposing fancy theoretical stuff
that nobody can make work in practice.  This one is no different".

If Bernstein did it, I'd be more worried :-).

Peter.