Encryption

If we fear abuse of law-enforcement powers under a Trump administration, that is reason to move towards the technically constrainable and enforceable transparency of split-key exceptional access mechanisms rather than towards the alternative of unconstrained, non-transparent capabilities such as device hacking.

The Manhattan District Attorney's Office has released a new version of its white paper on "Smartphone Encryption and Public Safety."

Recent scholarship on the Vulnerabilities Equities Process provokes interesting question about the ultimate goals of equities balancing reform and the best vehicle to accomplish those aims.

Global conversations are often skewed in favor of the countries that generate data or possess the technological capability to access it. The encryption debate in countries with advanced technical capacities is very different from the countries without them.