[Cryptography] Encryption doesn't seem to have bothered organisations who aren't the FBI

Peter Gutmann pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Sat Nov 16 21:59:52 EST 2019


Florian Weimer <fw at deneb.enyo.de> writes:

>They did not decrypt the phone calls.

I know that.  The point is that they saw there was encryption and dealt with
it, rather than using it to justify a power-grab.  The use of Russian military
crypto actually helped the investigators, since it presumably stuck out like a
sore thumb - who provided it, where the traffic was going to, and so on.

Peter.


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