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April 9, 2016

Visual Guide to Senate Crypto Bill [First Draft In Crayon?]

Filed under: Cryptography,Cybersecurity,Government — Patrick Durusau @ 7:13 pm

The Senate crypto bill is comically bad: A visual guide by Isaac Potoczny-Jones.

From the post:

If you’re curious about the draft text for the senate crypto bill please, read the text for yourself or a summary on Wired. If you have ever used a security product, you’ll probably quickly realize that it would make most (if not all) encryption illegal.

For example, a product like an encrypted hard drive is covered since seagate provides a process for storing data. Upon a court order, seagate must provide the data on that drive by making it intelligible, either by never encrypting it or if it is encrypted, they must decrypt it.

The following graphic is provided to illustrate the paths by which nearly all secure storage or communication needs to have a back door.

You have to see the graphic to truly appreciate how lame the draft Senate crypto bill is in fact.

These are the same people who are responsible for the “riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma” that is the Internal Revenue Code (IRC).

I can’t say it is a fact, but I suspect the first draft of the Senate crypto bill was in crayon.

What do you think?

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