--On Tuesday, March 31, 2020 10:00 +0200 Vittorio Bertola <vittorio.bertola=40open-xchange.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Il 30/03/2020 16:07 Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> ha scritto: >> >> >> On 3/30/20 9:45 AM, Vittorio Bertola wrote: >> >> > For example, privileging encryption over security is a >> > policy choice. >> >> That's a false dichotomy. Security is not enhanced, but >> weakened, by giving governments back-door access, and there >> is plenty of technical justification for that. > > That is your opinion, and incidentally it is also mine, but it > is not the opinion of a whole lot of non-technical > professionals and experts in the law enforcement field, and > even of some technical experts, otherwise "eTLS" would not > exist and would not have been approved as a technical standard > at another well respected standards organization. Those people > are not incompetent, those people prefer a different tradeoff > between multiple policy objectives. > > In any case, my discourse was much more general, so apologies > for mentioning that specific case, it was just meant as an > example, not to reopen a discussion from the past. I think it is another discussion for another time, but wonder how the two of you feel about privileging encryption over privacy and/or network robustness and resiliency in the cases in which those are real tradeoffs. john
