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The Practical Limitations of End-to-End Encryption
Internet discussions about end-to-end encryption are plagued by misunderstandings, misinformation, and some people totally missing the point. Of course, people being wrong on the Internet isn’…
Yesterday, a story in The Atlantic alleged that the Trump Administration accidentally added their editor, Jeffrey Goldberg, to a Signal group chat discussing a military action in Yemen. This is the perspective of the sort of person that will store the key and ciphertext in the same database just to claim it’s encrypted at rest to comply with their understanding of (for example, HIPAA) compliance requirements–even if this is, ultimately, security theater. Anyone who insists that the the real problem in this story is that the cryptographic security of Signal is somehow lacking (compared to that person’s preferred communication software) is either a liar or a fucking moron.
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