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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'>cryptography <cryptography-bounces+marios.choudary=cs.pub.ro@metzdowd.com> on behalf of Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com><br><b>Date: </b>Saturday, 29 June 2019 at 19:24<br><b>To: </b>Cryptography Mailing List <cryptography@metzdowd.com><br><b>Subject: </b>[Cryptography] The CryptoWars restart.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Forbes confirms yesterday's story in Politico:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/06/29/u-s-may-outlaw-uncrackable-end-to-end-encrypted-messaging-report-claims/?fbclid=IwAR3q67Uq-1ejc6mmK9CpCgxX_h6Qhm56Jp59GRprAf548g4IpjzHcwHx6YU#4cebbcb66c87">https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/06/29/u-s-may-outlaw-uncrackable-end-to-end-encrypted-messaging-report-claims/?fbclid=IwAR3q67Uq-1ejc6mmK9CpCgxX_h6Qhm56Jp59GRprAf548g4IpjzHcwHx6YU#4cebbcb66c87</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>It is clearly too soon to panic. But I must admit that I have been expecting this to happen and planning for it.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Signal, WhatsApp etc. are all fine but they are all designed as secure networks with a single service provider. Sure, other folk can use their code but you can't contact anyone on a different service, you can't run your own service.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Any single point of failure is a potential point of coercion.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________ The cryptography mailing list cryptography@metzdowd.com <a href="https://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography">https://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hello everyone,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We published last year at CCS 2018 our work on a protocol that could avoid or at least make much more difficult capturing communications by governments, i.e. trying to remove the potential points of coercion, as mentioned in the previous e-mail.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I think the work has gone pretty much unnoticed until now, so if you have any comments and/or you find it useful please let us know:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/1124.pdf">https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/1124.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>