[Cryptography] EU pushes for backdoored encryption

[Ismail Kizir]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 10:48 PM Tamzen Cannoy <tamzen at cannoy.org> wrote:

> > A more nuanced examination.
> >
> https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/09/whats-all-this-about-europe-wanting-crypto-backdoors/
>

Many modern constitutions, at least Continental European Constitutions, are
based on "*Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental
Freedoms"*, drafted in 1950, and signed by European States, according to
which, "Right of privacy" and "right of communication" is an essential
human right and "Essential rights can only be restricted by law, for a well
determined duration".
So, this kind of, "access", requires absolutely a law, in any modern law
system.
And, in many countries, it already exist such laws, for traditional ways of
communication: GSM operators must provide ways to legal authorities to
"listen an individual, clearly stated communication", for a "specified
time", by a "judge decision or court order".

Easy way is to find a "central source" of communication and to hold that
entity responsible to "provide required ways".

The solution for legal, "targeted" access to private data(which I have been
defending for many years) is NOT encryption backdoor.
It's simply, "hardware or operating system level backdoors". And we also
know that those backdoors exist for a very very long time: Check Wikileaks
documents in order to learn about a few. Ask Google for very old Intel Chip
"undocumented opcodes" etc.
So, there isn't any problem for "targeted" access to any kind of private
data.
There are device and/or OS specific backdoors & malwares used also by
governments for many years(also see Wikileaks and many other sources for
more info).

They just need to "legalize" a "de facto" truth: Asking hardware and/or
operating system level  backdoors passwords by a legitimate court order in
case of strong suspicion(In fact, they are actually and legally doing this
for regular phone calls, with court orders. They must just pass a new law
for operating system/hardware level access to devices).

Regarding all those "facts", still insisting on "encryption backdoor" is a
cheap demagogy in order to cover their appetite for "mass surveillance"
passions.

And Mrs. Cannoy, I don't think you have right to "silently discard" my
messages without any reason. Please don't do that anymore.

Regards
Ismail Kizir
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