UK Royal Society's #1 cybersecurity recommendation: don't backdoor crypto

The Royal Society, once presided over by Isaac Newton, is one of Britain's most respected learned institutions: that's why it matters so much that the organisation's new report, "Progress and research incybersecurity," begins by demanding that government "must commit topreserving the robustness of encryption,including end-to-end encryption, andpromoting its widespread use. Encryptionis a foundational security technology thatis needed to build user trust, improvesecurity standards and fully realise thebenefits of digital systems." (more…)