Several times a year, we face massive calls for a truly ridiculous notion: create government accessible encryption backdoors. There is constant background support from lawmakers and TLA government agencies. The calls are strongest when a terrorist atrocity kills innocent people. But as I’m going to show you, encryption is vital to day to day life, and to keeping the internet running how you like it and know it: open and free. What Is Encryption? At its simplest, encryption is the transformation of intelligible text into a stream of gibberish. There are numerous ways to encrypt data. The transformative math is...
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