Security News > 2021 > June > We've been shown time and again that strong encryption puts crims behind bars, so why do politicos hate it?

Back in October, a call by spy agencies to weaken end-to-end encryption "Because of the children" provoked a bit of analysis on how many times UK Home Secretaries had banged the same drum.

Finally, because we must Think Of The Children, we can skip back into the distant days of last month, when the German police closed down the world's biggest paedophile picture palace, despite it being on what the world calls the Big Scary Darknet and what we know as the internet but with extra relays.

All these things - and so, so many more - have happened in spite of not having the ability to break strong encryption.

It reads technical reportage, and it knows, as we know, that the basic mechanisms of standard encryption are mathematically secure - for now and never without caveats, but good enough.

State-mandated insecure encryption is a very bad idea.

You can't make anything more secure by making it less secure.

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