NSA and Bruce Schneier

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NSA and Bruce Schneier

Post by Pigeon » Sat Feb 28, 2015 10:03 pm

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That face when you're the director of the NSA and Bruce Schneier shows up and asks you about crypto #NewAmCyber

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Rogers was typically vague on specifics, but he did wade briefly into the pesky issue of communications integrity. Like FBI director James Comey before him, Rogers said there needs to be a way for his and other agencies to access encrypted communications.

Yahoo CISO, Alex Stamos, asked the NSA director that if his company had to provide backdoors for the NSA, then would it have to do the same for the People’s Liberation Army or other national governments.

Famed cryptographer Bruce Schneier went a step further in a later discussion, explaining that we cannot prevent criminals and foreign governments from accessing encrypted communications while allowing U.S. law enforcement to do so. This, he said, is technically impossible.

Rogers pointedly distanced himself from the conflation that legal access to encrypted communications would constitute a backdoor. Without providing a competing euphemism or an actual explanation for how such a process would actually work, Rogers simply said that we need to create a legal framework to allow such access for investigatory and intelligence gathering purposes.

See more at: NSA Director: We Need Frameworks for Cyber, Circumventing Crypto http://wp.me/p3AjUX-sVw


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