Senate encryption bill draft mandates 'technical assistance'
Crypto == Math. Full stop.<p>All thoughts on civil liberties aside, it&#x27;s sad that these officials don&#x27;t even realize that what they&#x27;re asking for is (or will hopefully shortly be) impossible for companies to do.<p>Then the real fighting will start. I&#x27;m sure Congress sees this proposal as a middle-ground between DOJ desires and freedom&#x2F;privacy, but once it dawns on them that things like &quot;no knowledge&quot; encryption are really what it says on the tin, they will feel backed into a corner, with the only visible choices being something asinine like, criminalize encryption or ... give up?<p>Maybe that&#x27;s something for this community to start thinking about, if we want to have a constructive say in this whole mess. Come up with a way to frame the &quot;Give up&quot; option in a better light, so Congress can point to it and tell the DOJ &quot;look we did X for you&quot;, while still not outlawing encryption.