[Cryptography] Putin goes full Stasi; wants encryption keys for the Internet

Michael Kjörling michael at kjorling.se
Tue Jul 12 11:39:48 EDT 2016


On 8 Jul 2016 07:15 -0700, from hbaker1 at pipeline.com (Henry Baker):
> https://meduza.io/en/news/2016/07/07/putin-gives-federal-security-agents-two-weeks-to-produce-encryption-keys-for-the-internet
> 
> Putin gives federal security agents two weeks to produce 'encryption keys' for the Internet
> 
> 13:28, 7 july 2016

According to the EDRi (unverified claim), the EU isn't all that far
behind Russia in this.

Quoting from https://edri.org/three-steps-to-end-freedom-expression/

> Step 4 is already in the early stages of development. Member States
> in the EU Council are having discussions about “voluntary”
> cooperation with internet companies to decrypt encrypted
> communications.

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