tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post2789848894519545027..comments2024-03-28T09:19:27.451+00:00Comments on RevK<sup>®</sup>'s ramblings: Uncrackable encryptionRevKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369263214193333422noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-43464064276824941792015-11-18T13:49:23.634+00:002015-11-18T13:49:23.634+00:00Have you seen the story on the register http://www...Have you seen the story on the register http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/18/mps_to_assess_technological_feasibility_of_requirements_under_proposed_new_surveillance_laws/Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03982568694318588048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-73360061780439927262015-11-18T10:06:00.312+00:002015-11-18T10:06:00.312+00:00It's subjects like this that make it glaringly...It's subjects like this that make it glaringly apparent, that for the majority of MPs, their ability to persuade people to vote for them is inversely proportional to their competency at anything that would actually make them a good politician.<br /><br />It takes an incredibly small minded person to be unable to grasp that one has about as much chance of banning encryption, as banning the song Humpty-Dumpty, even when the reasons have been explained to them at length.<br /><br />It's not about a hardware platform, or an app, it's a field of mathematics. Even if every piece of hardware and software containing encrption was banned (good luck getting rid of every occurence of the source code for things like PGP), then nothing would stop terrorists from simply finding someone with a sufficient understanding of the mathematics, and writing their own software. A minor inconvenience for them, that has no effect on their ability to hide their communications, while the attemt to ban encryption, or even just add backdoors, would have a hugely damaging effect on society.<br /><br />Encryption is something that has been let out of Pandora's box, and there is no way to put it back.dsbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11622222871152822089noreply@blogger.com