RE: Why Encryption Drives the Government to Seek Access to the Cloud

It used to be a far simpler crypto world where classic crypto was generally weak and nothing to be feared. Then, the so-called modern crypto appeared as a promising panacea to weakness.

Behold weakness was the result of inconvenience, generally the unavailability of computer power to launch better algorithms. In seeking simplicity, something inferior IQ's of law enforcement and power drawn bureaucrats might describe on a memo, weakness was perpetuated and technology defined as less than it was or could be.

One of the first thing I read from the web was an essay about the status of crypto as imagined in the 90's as presented by Lawrence Eagleburger, RIP. I took the fears presented as a list of what to do.

He didn't get it then and our guy Peter Swire doesn't get it now. Perhaps it is because of the blind leading the blind, ignorance, unintended stupidity, and/or for pressured propaganda reasons but cryptography is not a closed shop at all even if that would be handy for the Technical Idiots in Charge who are always decades in mental arrears. Peter is a nice guy, met him once, but even well meaning does not replace fathomed accuracy.

Consider what happens when intelligence is contrived for political purposes where truth can be a wart on policy and a hurdle to be explained away for despotic ends. No, science is not so easily managed where Excellence would say something plausible, coherent, and not structured just for consumption but because it is what is is.

Cryptography is a wonderful area of study, unlimited, multifacited, almost hypnotic in what it can do when effectively implemented. The guide is best for improvement beyond the poor start we have seen. There are irrationals that simply cannot exist as demanded, where the simple cookbook of available lego logic fragments can be used to do majestic things if taken as stars for inspiration.

Let computers evolve, free expression and communication thrive, and crypto be honed as a knife for needed security and integrity as we challenge the darkness of blemished prejudices against awareness.

WTShaw
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