[Cryptography] What if Responsible Encryption Back-Doors Were Possible?

[Ber Saxon]

On 12/9/18 11:57 AM, Notify wrote:
> I suppose “Responsible Encryption” requires a clear definition. Combining that term with “Back-Doors” complicates things.
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> If managing the security of and access to Private Keys is included in “Responsible Encryption”, then the involuntary and/or coerced transfer of those Private Keys into the hands of unintended, uninvited, unknown and unaccountable parties will require substantial twisting of the word “Responsible”.
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> “Encryption” is just one piece of the process and machinery in which a user generally intends to limit access to certain data or metadata to the recipient he or she intends, and to no other. It is that end-to-end intention as a whole that must be enabled and protected. The challenges to that will continue in the form of boiling-frog exercises of rolling government mandates/threats/carrots/sticks to network, service, software and hardware companies.
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This blog rant answers the question.

"I present here a scheme that would allow concerned parties to decrypt
all communications and files incumbent to investigation of criminal
activity without violating the privacy rights of any government officials."

[link](https://cryptography.pub/docs/blog/Safe-and-Responsible-Encryption-Back-Doors-Coming-Soon.html)

Ber Saxon