[Cryptography] NSA security guidelines for videoconferencing

Alfie John alfie at alfie.wtf
Mon May 4 03:11:22 EDT 2020


On 4 May 2020, at 14:18, Whitfield Diffie <whitfield.diffie at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Encryption can be end-to-end but for security to be end-to-end the key
> negotiation has also to be end-to-end.  The terminology had fooled me
> and I had not seen this clearly before.

Can a system really be called end-to-end when someone not at either end can decrypt? I'd argue no.

Alfie

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