Breaking Encryption Hurts Our Defenses
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By Justin Sherman
October 10, 2018
The so-called “Five Eyes†recently pledged to force “encryption backdoors†into private systems. As I just wrote for Real Clear Policy, this has serious humanitarian implications, but it would also seriously harm those countries’ own cyber defenses.
Encryption backdoors operate on a relatively simple premise: The encryption keys used to keep information secret—which are usually only accessible to an end user, such as the recipient of a Signal message or the owner of an iPhone—are instead controlled by a third party, to access systems or data as desired. (Mashable has a great explainer here.)
https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2018/10/10/breaking_encryption_hurts_our_defenses_113883.html
