[liberationtech] Cryptography super-group creates unbreakable encryption

Jens Christian Hillerup jens at hillerup.net
Thu Feb 7 13:29:12 PST 2013


On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 5:34 PM, scarp <scarp at tormail.org> wrote:
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> Jens Christian Hillerup:
>> Hear-hear. They don't need to open-source their software to
>> convince me, as long as they are open about their protocol at
>> least.
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> And what if there's a second set of decryption master keys? You're
> willing to trust them because they say "We're famous guys, we won't do
> anything bad, and plus we hate naughty governments."

No, I think we agree. I meant by protocol that it'd be possible for me
to create a client for the service from scratch (maybe even the server
part, too, but not strictly needed), i.e. I get to choose the
encryption key(s), etc. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

JC



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