[Cryptography] GCHQ's plan to backdoor encrypted phone calls

[Paul Ferguson]

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On 1/19/2016 7:03 PM, Henry Baker wrote:

> FYI -- The whole article is too long to reproduce here; follow the
> link to read the whole article.
> 
> https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2016/01/19/insecure-by-design-protocols-f
or-encrypted-phone-calls/
>
>  Insecure by design: protocols for encrypted phone calls
> 
> The MIKEY-SAKKE protocol is being promoted by the UK government as
> a better way to secure phone calls. The reality is that MIKEY-SAKKE
> is designed to offer minimal security while allowing undetectable
> mass surveillance, through the introduction a backdoor based around
> mandatory key-escrow. This weakness has implications which go
> further than just the security of phone calls.
> 

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Also seen here:

https://www.onthewire.io/uk-voice-encryption-standard-built-for-key-escr
ow-surveillance/

FYI,

- - ferg


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Paul Ferguson
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