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> systems which allow for governments to be conditionally able to decrypt messages

Make a backdoor for the government and all organized crime will also have a backdoor and it'll turn any encryption into a security-by-obscurity model. It would be just like those TSA locks which now anyone can open because all the universal keys are public. And such powers will be abused by the government & police as well. It's inevitable, that's very clear from what already happens with current surveillance laws.

Backdoor means broken encryption, period.



>Make a backdoor for the government and all organized crime will also have a backdoor

I never said to add a back door. I said we should add a front door. The cryptographic protocol should take into account the needs of the government too. To prevent abuse from organized crime it should be made difficult to fake warrants.




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