[Cryptography] With an e2e network, would the US still need to ban Huawei's 5G

[Alfie John]

Something's been bugging me recently...

For the past few years, US officials have gone on multiple world tours trying to convince counterparts to ban Huawei from their networks, with the pretext being that China can use backdoors into critical national infrastructure.

Wouldn't it be better if they designed the network and equipment to be untrusting, and deployed e2e encryption everywhere?

Pondering on this suggests that security was not their primary motive behind the bans.

Alfie

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