[Cryptography] EU pushes for backdoored encryption

Ismail Kizir ikizir at gmail.com
Tue Nov 10 18:45:40 EST 2020


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  backdoor passwords/codes 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".

Regards
Ismail Kizir


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

>
>
> On Nov 10, 2020, at 2:22 AM, Danny Muizebelt <dannym at packetloss.at> wrote:
>
> The ORF news agency in Austria got hold of a fast tracked internal EU
> resolution which would demand backdoors in end-to-end encrypted messaging
> apps like Whatsapp and Signal.
>
>
> https://files.orf.at/vietnam2/files/fm4/202045/783284_fh_st12143-re01en20_783284.pdf
>
> The latest terror attack in Austria is being used to further push this
> agenda forward. It seems that when the terrorist was posing with the
> weapons on Instagram it was too difficult to decipher.
>
> But don't worry, only the good guys get the key.
>
> -Danny
>
> *"Nolege is power!"*
>
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