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The only reason the government "gave up" in the previous crypto war was because they decided to find ways to break or weaken crypto to their needs. I don't think this time will be any different, one way or another they will get access to our data.


They have done a shitty job at it. Snowden revealed much but non of the real horror stories have turned out to be true.

Modern standards like SHA3 are designed far better and in a way that make it way harder for anybody to build in a backdoor.

This is one of the few areas we dont have to worry to much about.

What we need to worry about is addoption of good defaults by the large majority.




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