Talking Backdoors: Forcing a round peg into a square hole
This article, written by Monika Ermert, originally appeared on the CENTR website as part of their RIPE 82 reporting.
In an appeal to the RIPE community Patrik Fältström, Technical Director and Head of Security at Netnod, and Stephen Farrell, Researcher at Trinity College and long time Security Area Director at the IETF, spoke out against the next wave of “not so secure encryption” proposals from the European Union. A recent Council of Ministers’ paper from the Portugese Presidency underlines once more the need for access to end-to-end encrypted communication.
“It is not over”, both Fältström and Farrell warned in their talks at the RIPE82 meeting on backdoor discussions, which according to Fältström are happening without technical experts.
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