Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein Is Still Calling for an Encryption Backdoor
Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein Is Still Calling for an Encryption Backdoor
Security, Spoken · SpokenLayer
November 30, 20185m 25s
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Show Notes
Tension has existed for decades between law enforcement and privacy advocates over data encryption. The United States government has consistently lobbied for the creation of so-called backdoors in encryption schemes that would give law enforcement a way in to otherwise unreadable data. Meanwhile, cryptographers have universally decried the notion as unworkable. But at a cybercrime symposium at the Georgetown University Law School on Thursday, deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein renewed the call.
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