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January 10, 2016 04:00 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Ttu1llNrdH0/crypto-guru-david-chaums-private-communications-network-comes-with-a-backdoor
Crypto Guru David Chaum's Private Communications Network Comes With a Backdoor
An anonymous reader writes: David Chaum, father of many encryption protocols, has revealed a new anonymity network concept called PrivaTegrity. Chaum, on who's work the Onion protocol was based, created a new encryption protocol that works as fast as I2P and the Onion-Tor combo, but also has better encryption. The only downside, according to an interview, is that he built a backdoor into the darn thing, just to please governments. He says that he's not going to use the backdoor unless to unmask crime on the Dark Web. Here's the research paper (if you can understand anything of it).Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Ttu1llNrdH0/crypto-guru-david-chaums-private-communications-network-comes-with-a-backdoor
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