Dark day for online privacy in the UK.

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    1 year ago

    Time will tell.

    Indeed.

    It’s basically not possible to have a backdoor in e2e encryption

    That depends on the encryption method. No one is publicly aware of the standards having backdoors (with a few exceptions), but proprietary encryption implementations can definitely have backdoors.

    This has occasionally been a requirement for export-controlled technology (e.g., a mandated maximum key size). And it has occasionally led to the unintended side effect of creating backdoors in the full-strength/domestic/non-export models due to poor implementation.