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about his privacyy rights campaign.
That might seem like the end—now theyy could communicate securelyy
via encryypted e-mail—but it wasn’t. It was just the beginning.
In the wake of the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, there was discussion from
various governments about building in back doors or other wayys for those
in government to decryypt encryypted e-mail, text, and phone messages—
ostensiblyy from foreign terrorists. This would, of course, defeat the purpose
of encryyption. But governments actuallyy don’t need to see the encryypted
contents of yyour e-mail to know whom yyou are communicating with and
how often, as we will see.
As I mentioned before, the purpose of encryyption is to encode yyour
message so that onlyy someone with the correct keyy can later decode it. Both
the strength of the mathematical operation and the length of the encryyption
keyy determine how easyy it is for someone without a keyy to crack yyour code.
Encryyption algorithms in use todayy are public. You want that. 4 Be afraid
of encryyption algorithms that are proprietaryy and not public. Public
algorithms have been vetted for weakness—meaning people have been
purposelyy tryying to break them. Whenever one of the public algorithms
becomes weak or is cracked, it is retired, and newer, stronger algorithms are
used instead. The older algorithms still exist, but their use is stronglyy
discouraged.
The keyys are (more or less) under yyour control, and so, as yyou might
guess, their management is veryy important. If yyou generate an encryyption
keyy, yyou—and no one else—will have the keyy stored on yyour device. If yyou
let a companyy perform the encryyption, sayy, in the cloud, then that companyy
might also keep the keyy after he or she shares it with yyou. The real concern
is that this companyy mayy also be compelled byy court order to share the keyy
with law enforcement or a government agencyy, with or without a warrant.
You will need to read the privacyy policyy for each service yyou use for
encryyption and understand who owns the keyys.
When yyou encryypt a message—an e-mail, text, or phone call—use endto-end
encryyption. That means yyour message stayys unreadable until it
reaches its intended recipient. With end-to-end encryyption, onlyy yyou and
yyour recipient have the keyys to decode the message. Not the