[Cryptography] The CryptoWars restart.

[Marios Choudary]

From: cryptography <cryptography-bounces+marios.choudary=cs.pub.ro at metzdowd.com> on behalf of Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill at hallambaker.com>
Date: Saturday, 29 June 2019 at 19:24
To: Cryptography Mailing List <cryptography at metzdowd.com>
Subject: [Cryptography] The CryptoWars restart.

 

Forbes confirms yesterday's story in Politico:

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/06/29/u-s-may-outlaw-uncrackable-end-to-end-encrypted-messaging-report-claims/?fbclid=IwAR3q67Uq-1ejc6mmK9CpCgxX_h6Qhm56Jp59GRprAf548g4IpjzHcwHx6YU#4cebbcb66c87

 

It is clearly too soon to panic. But I must admit that I have been expecting this to happen and planning for it.

 

Signal, WhatsApp etc. are all fine but they are all designed as secure networks with a single service provider. Sure, other folk can use their code but you can't contact anyone on a different service, you can't run your own service.

 

Any single point of failure is a potential point of coercion.

 

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Hello everyone,

 

We published last year at CCS 2018 our work on a protocol that could avoid or at least make much more difficult capturing communications by governments, i.e. trying to remove the potential points of coercion, as mentioned in the previous e-mail.

 

I think the work has gone pretty much unnoticed until now, so if you have any comments and/or you find it useful please let us know:

https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/1124.pdf

 

 

 

 

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