I am going to assume someone smart spoke to people about what encryption is and isn't. What it is; math, what it isn't; a magical mystical realm where anything you desire is possible.
This is one of those absolutist debates. There are no compromises there are no magical backdoors. A backdoor in encryption is like locking your front door but leaving the key in the lock, sure the deadbolt or handle is locked, all an intruder needs to do is turn the key. Thats an encryption backdoor.
In computer encryption there is no such thing as a secret back door.
I'll use a very very simplistic example of a "secret back door" in an encryption algorithm. When a hacker goes through the encryption algorithm that has no back door (again extremely simplistic) this is what it would look like metaphorically of coures.
22222222222 22222222222 22222222222 with a good encryption there are no holes or back doors.
Now your encryption with a back door
22222222222 22222223222 22222222222
This is how easy it is for an expirenced hacker to find the secrete back door.
any hole in encryption is like taping your house key to your front door after locking it. not under the matt taped to the door
not so easy now is it?
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I am going to assume someone smart spoke to people about what encryption is and isn't. What it is; math, what it isn't; a magical mystical realm where anything you desire is possible.
This is one of those absolutist debates. There are no compromises there are no magical backdoors. A backdoor in encryption is like locking your front door but leaving the key in the lock, sure the deadbolt or handle is locked, all an intruder needs to do is turn the key. Thats an encryption backdoor.
Re: Just backdoor the encryption already!
In computer encryption there is no such thing as a secret back door.
I'll use a very very simplistic example of a "secret back door" in an encryption algorithm. When a hacker goes through the encryption algorithm that has no back door (again extremely simplistic) this is what it would look like metaphorically of coures.
22222222222
22222222222
22222222222
with a good encryption there are no holes or back doors.
Now your encryption with a back door
22222222222
22222223222
22222222222
This is how easy it is for an expirenced hacker to find the secrete back door.
any hole in encryption is like taping your house key to your front door after locking it. not under the matt taped to the door
not so easy now is it?