Encryption and Security

• Encryption is essential element in security

  • but is not magic bullet

• Can authenticate or provide confidentiality

• Governments don’t like confidentiality

  • export controls used to thwart widespread use

• Carriers not motivated to protect users’ privacy

  • and pressured by CALEA to do opposite

• Ergo, user-provided end-to-end encryption essential

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