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

[Christian Huitema]

> On Feb 18, 2020, at 6:14 PM, Patrick Chkoreff <pc at fexl.com> wrote:
> 
> Christian Huitema wrote on 2/18/20 2:42 PM:
>> On 2/18/2020 5:51 AM, Alfie John wrote:
> ...
>>> Wouldn't it be better if they designed the network and equipment to be untrusting, and deployed e2e encryption everywhere?
> ...
>> 
>> Metadata. We kill people based on metadata 
>> (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gJvABEi3wQ).
> 
> We already have a problem with metadata.  Would Alfie's e2e suggestion
> make that problem worse?

Of course we need e2e encryption. But Alfie was wondering why the US government was concerned about Huawei providing telecommunication equipment in US-allied country. And the simplest explanation is that on-path devices are in a beautiful position to collect meta data.

-- Christian Huitema