[Cryptography] Licensing of cryptographic services in France

[efc at disroot.org]

On Tue, 27 Aug 2024, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:

>       That will push solutions based on steganography, hiding encrypted
>       information in non-encrypted streams. There will of course be a black
>       market (the market always wins in the end, despite what todays socialist
>       politicians want us to believe) for encrypted communication through white
>       listed corporations. I read an article a long time ago, that this is how
>       it works in china, were companies do sell internet connections to the west
>       if you know who to ask through the right channels.
> 
> 
> Yup. Already designed in.

Very interesting and thank you very much for the information Phillip. In
case of steganography based solution, what would you think the
performance impact would be?

For regular text-only, chatting I would imagine that it would be close
to nothing.

But when it comes to transfering files in the 10-100 MB range would
steganography make that too painful, and what about audio/video chats?


>       I think, in the short term, that the west will increasingly look at, and
>       copy china, when it comes to the view of free speech, and building a great
>       firewall. But that will only push technologists and markets to up their
>       level, so in the end, we'll benefit. The only sad part is that it will
>       take a while.
> 
> 
> Depends who wins in November. If it is Putin's people we are in a very different place.

For better or for worse... "exciting times". ;)