humble3d Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Computer back doors fear and loathing... BACK DOORS AND FRONT DOORS BREAKING THE UNBREAKABLE SYSTEM Governments are demanding backdoor access to encrypted data - particularly on mobile devices and in the cloud - as strong encryption becomes commonplace. Governments fear going dark with encryption hindering criminal and national security investigations. Privacy advocates have opposed backdoors since the 1990s and the battle is heating up again, this time on a global scale. Backdoors have also been criticized as making systems inherently less secure. Current proposals, such as key escrow, split-key systems, and account mirroring, are complicated and difficult to implement securely. We provide a background on end-to-end encryption, a techno-political history of backdoors, and an update on the current state of affairs. We explore various options for working around end-to-end encryption, focusing on implementation details and potential weakness due to administrative failure in procedures to request and obtain access and technical attacks on the implementation. We conclude with proposals to answer the lingering question of whether there is a solution that does not weaken encryption systems or mandate technological designs while still enabling limited government access to secure communications. PRESENTED BY James Denaro & Matthew Green https://www.blackhat.com/us-15/briefings.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
straycat19 Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 I think this is a subject that has been driven into the ground because the public really doesn't know what the government and software makers are doing behind the scenes. It is almost like a redirection event, where all the back and forth is distracting from looking at what is actually happening behind the public debate. Even Microsoft admits to keeping a copy of your encryption key if you use bitlocker in Windows 10 and who is to say that other companies don't get a copy of the encryption information when you use their products. The only safe encryption would be one you wrote yourself and didn't share with anyone. Anything else has to be considered as being available to governments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 22 hours ago, straycat19 said: Anything else has to be considered as being available to governments. I don't really believe this , because do you think everything is made in the USA or five eyes countries were they give a crap? . Even the director of the FBI when spoke at the USA vs Microsoft case said that open source encryption no matter were its made would be very hard for them to control . Learn to think outside the box. When you use things from places that are known precipitants of prism for encryption what do you expect they work with the Government already. Expecting Google , Apple and Microsoft to protect you're privacy is just like saying In the end everyone will stop trusting them and they will move there businesses elsewhere and it will blow up in there face. Quote Spaceman Spiff • September 11, 2015 6:04 PM If the US were to force encryption backdoors on US products, the first thing that would happen is that these companies would move overseas to countries not so idiotic, along with all of their software and hardware development,. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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