Comment by brookst
12 days ago
No, it makes the encryption useless. Because whatever technical method the government has to break encryption will leak. Once those 4096 bits or whatever leak, nobody has encryption at all.
It’s like high schools that mandate use of a particular model of lock for students’ lockers because there’s a master key staff can use to open lockers. Do you know how many students have copies of that master key? Essentially anyone who wants one.
The myth here is that a magic key that invalidates encryption can ever be controlled. It cannot.
I am very explicitly arguing that master keys shouldn't exist, for the exact reasons you mentioned.
>> Because whatever technical method the government has to break encryption will leak.
The government cannot break encryption(at least I hope they can't!)
>>The myth here is that a magic key that invalidates encryption can ever be controlled.
It's the same key you have.
Sure the government can break encryption. By, for instance, mandating multi-key schemes with escrow.
You may be thinking in terms of math “break”. I’m talking in terms of functionality break.