Um... would you mind explaining Diffie-Hellman key exchange and its implications to those of us who don't know what it is?
Do you mean that if you and I exchange keys in advance and encrypt our communications with them, it's impossible (either in fact or in practice) to decrypt them without the keys?
Because from what I heard on NPR news, what they're trying to get is access to communications via devices and services (at least some of) which are readily available, are not currently effectively tappable, and do not (out-of-box) support encryption.
Not that that makes the government's request any more or less acceptable.
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Date: 2010-09-28 04:01 pm (UTC)Do you mean that if you and I exchange keys in advance and encrypt our communications with them, it's impossible (either in fact or in practice) to decrypt them without the keys?
Because from what I heard on NPR news, what they're trying to get is access to communications via devices and services (at least some of) which are readily available, are not currently effectively tappable, and do not (out-of-box) support encryption.
Not that that makes the government's request any more or less acceptable.