The authors of the weak Diffie-Hellman work are almost certainly correct that the technique they describe is used by the NSA, in bulk, to perform a massive amount of decryption on Internet traffic. This...

Much ink has been expended over the past few months over the Administration's floated idea of requiring encryption back doors in new technology implementions -- an idea that, for now, the Administration ...

On October 5, Third Way and the R Street Institute sent a joint request to the respective leaders of the House and Senate intelligence committees. The letter asks the committees to declassify records of ...

President Obama’s waving the encryption white flag to Apple wasn’t the only big “going dark” news this week—and it’s not the only bad news for law enforcement. The courts continue to struggle with encryp...

In a Washington Post story on October 7 (that I just saw), Andrea Peterson writes about the inability of government authorities and privacy advocates to agree on the meaning of “strong encryption.”

The New York Times reported on October 11, 2015 that The Obama administration has backed down in its bitter dispute with Silicon Valley over the encryption of data on iPhones and other digital devices,...

In my last post, I argued that surveillance reform is the only way to ensure continued data flows between the US and the European Union. In this post, I will begin to explore whether there is a practical...

Our buddy Jane Smith has a lot of European friends. As such, the collapse of the safe harbor agreement has hit her Facebook account hard.

In my last post, I said that the European Court of Justice decision in Maximillian Schrems v. Data Protection Commission ignores some inconvenient truths. US frustrations with European double standards o...

There is a lot of bad blood between Silicon Valley companies and the intelligence community. It should not be surprising with what the NSA did to understand why Silicon Valley is pushing back so strongl...

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