AG Barr, Cypherpunks disagree. We generally only endorse open source, e2e, encryption for p2p communications with no societal or government say so. We countenance no provision for legal access. Secure, even covert, communications is a right which need only be perfected between the the communicating parties.
On Fri, Oct 4, 2019, 9:25 PM John Young <[email protected]> wrote: > Attorney General William P. Barr Delivers Remarks at the Lawful Access > Summit > > > https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-william-p-barr-delivers-remarks-lawful-access-summit > > "It is also said that the Government is seeking a secretive > 'backdoor' to everyone's communications and data. That is false. We > are seeking a front door. > > The heart of the matter is this: Do the security advantages of > warrant-proof encryption offered to the individual outweigh the risk > posed to the public by that same technology? This is not a decision > for the companies to make by themselves. It is a decision for > society to make. > > We think our tech sector has the ingenuity to develop effective ways > to provide secure encryption while also providing secure legal access." > > >
