Re: AG Barr: USG Seeks Front Door to Encryption Not Backdoor

we also need new devices to avoid communication bugs called surveillance, NSA, "five eyes‎" etc.

Sent from BlackBerry. Wait. What?

From: Steven Schear

Sent: Saturday 5 October 2019 10:10

To: John Young

Cc: [email protected]; cryptography-of7zbby7T3pWk0Htik3J/[email protected]; cypherpunks

Subject: Re: <nettime> AG Barr: USG Seeks Front Door to Encryption Not Backdoor

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 <jya-IR+WnUzluqRWk0Htik3J/[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."