UK Parliament / Open data

Investigatory Powers Bill

I fear that the Minister is taking himself down a long cul-de-sac here, because the implication of what he is saying is that no one may develop end-to-end encryption. One feature of end-to-end encryption is that the provider cannot break it; encryption is private between the users at both ends. He seems to be implying that providers can use only encryption which can be broken and therefore cannot be end to end, so the next version of the Apple iPhone would in theory become illegal. I think that there is quite a lot of work to be done on this.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
774 c278 
Session
2016-17
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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