The chief of Europol chief has urged technology companies to cooperate with law enforcement in unlocking encrypted messages. A failure to do so...
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Wanna see how they gonna break a zero knowledge AES-256 encryption
They would likely put a bounty on it, like they did with Monero.
(I’m only half joking)
i’m pretty sure nobody will claim that bounty in at least 20-30 years. breaking AES-256 is infeasible even with the best computers right now
And there’s the proof of someone who doesn’t understand what encryption is.
The analogy is closer to not knowing which house to go to.
Once you’ve given someone the address, you can’t stop them telling other people where the house is. And once you’ve given someone the encryption key, you can’t take it back. There is no “master key” that unlocks just for law enforcement.
How would this work without breaking cryptography? The whole point of a good cipher is that the algorithm can be public and widely understood, and all that’s needed for it to be secure is for the private key to be private. A cipher that has some backdoor -master key- is by design insecure and no sane person should use it. Security through obscurity doesn’t work, trying to keep the algorithm private won’t work, someone sooner or later will break it.
It can’t work without breaking cryptography. Any system with backdoors in it is fundamentally insecure.
Enough with this shit already! Even the FBI begrudgingly knows better.