Re: Mandatory encryption *is* theater

In message <CAP+FsNenAQvhoMMNmWj_hjjV9rrZPQT92pNGXaM3Kdm0T_bu=Q@mail.gmail.com>, Roberto Peon writes:

>In any case, if you're doing the work of signing, why not just encrypt?

Because signing wouldn't force Police-states intelligence services
to break, weaken or circumvent any and all encryption, in order to
comply with the mandate they were put under, by democratically
elected politicians ?

If you make encryption mandatory in HTTP/2.0, more of your tax-money
will drain into NSA[1] ?

Poul-Henning

[1] The Guardian pegs the number at around 850.000 NSA employees
and contractors:
	http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/21/gchq-cables-secret-world-communications-nsa

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Received on Sunday, 25 August 2013 20:53:09 UTC