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The sins of the 90s: Questioning a puzzling claim about mass surveillance
Meredith Whittaker, president of the Signal Foundation, gave an interesting talk at NDSS 2024 titled "AI, Encryption, and the Sins of the 90s". I won't try to summarize everything the talk is saying: go watch the talk video yourself, or at least read through the transcript.
#pqcrypto #patents #ntru #lpr #ding #peikert #newhope 2020.12.06: Optimizing for the wrong metric, part 1: Microsoft Word: Review of "An Efficiency Comparison of Document Preparation Systems Used in Academic Research and Development" by Knauff and Nejasmic. Indeed, we can craft a counterfactual history in which the liberalization of encryption didn’t happen, in which we instead accepted some janky, backdoored, government-standard cryptosystem—some sad Clipper chip DES admixture—and that instead became the thing: a world in which strong cryptosystems did not receive the benefit of many eyes and open scrutiny. The possibility of the use of such power for authoritarian purposes awakened images of Orwellian dystopia in the minds of countless journalists, scholars, writers, and politicians during the 1960s, drawing wide-scale public attention to surveillance and lending urgency to the emerging legal debate over privacy rights.
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