Encryption has been in the news a lot recently. Whether Apple vs the FBI, Microsoft continues the Department of Justice, senators or the drafting of bills to require mandatory encryption backdoors, encryption and cyber security are hot topics recent. We take a look at the key events in the past two decades, which have helped shape the debate of whether encryption is a necessary tool or a dangerous roadblock.
Take a jump to the 20th century, 1993 was a great year for the encryption technology. The Clipper chip is an encryption technology developed and promoted by the NSA, with integrated backdoor. The Clipper chip aroused considerable game when it was tied to the illegal government surveillance and was found to contain several key vulnerabilities and flaws. In 1996, it was more relevant, but it would not be the last time the government tried to load an encryption backdoor.
Four years later, in 1997, a report related to security entitled "Key Recovery Risks, Escrow Key, and Trusted Encryption third" highlighted the risks, costs and implications of systems allow government access to encrypted keys deployment. Many technology professionals, including Cryptographer Bruce Schneier, have stressed the importance of activating the encryption types that do not allow government interference or the access. the paper has collected a considerable amount of discussion and is still cited in today's encryption debate.
more than a decade later, in 2013, former employee of the NSA Edward Snowden leaked thousands of documents classified NSA to many journalists. the documents presented details of secrecy "Bullrun" project NSA created to decipher the encryption codes and monitor mass communications. Snowden currently lives in Russia, a country which has granted him temporary asylum. Called a whistleblower, a hero, a villain and much more, Edward Snowden is on his decision to flee the private documents of the NSA, and is currently active in the debate on privacy on the Internet.
Today, the encryption debate rages with high profile cases such as Microsoft and Apple vs FBI against the Department of Justice. Apple was ordered to help unlock iPhone shooter San Bernardino, which they refused to do so because it would compromise the privacy of all Apple users. The case was eventually dropped when the FBI decided to turn to a third source to unlock the iPhone. Microsoft is suing the Ministry of Justice of the United States during a common practice that the tech force companies to give data about their customers to the government without the knowledge of the client. Adding oil to the fire, a recent bill introduced by Senators Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein called for high-tech companies to create mandatory backdoors in their technologies.
The encryption debate will surely continue to evolve and progress, and we hope that the conversation continues help spread more awareness and education surrounding the issue. We support strong encryption, unbreakable, because it is the only way to ensure that private online life is really protected. We hope the US government will adopt encryption as a tool to protect people, not harm them.
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