Annotated Bibliography On International Encryption Subversion

Nicholas Gambini Crypto Final Paper Dr. Landquist Intro to Crypto International Encryption Subversion Introduction: As implied by the fourth, ninth, and fourteenth amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all citizens of the United States have a right to privacy. In the digital age, where all of our most important and personal information is stored digitally, we must have a way to protect this digital content. To protect our data we use encryption where contents of files are scrambled and distorted and can only be made legible by someone who knows the decryption key. Governments in Europe, Asia, and America are currently engaged in undermining the encryption and privacy rights of their citizens either by demanding backdoors or†¦show more content†¦Apple responded with a case curiously omitted from the FBI’s argument; a federal judge found it inconceivable that the law could be used to compel a telecommunications provider to allow real-time tracking of a cellphone without a search warrant (Lichtblau). As support for Apple grew, Director of Privacy at Stanford Law School, Albert Gidari, LLM, published a paper detailing specifically why the FBI was wrong and why their argument was useless. In his paper he discusses the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, or CALEA. CALEA details what is and isn’t lawful assistance from telecommunications companies to the government. Within section 1002 lies these details: (1) Design of features and systems configurations. This subchapter does not authorize any law enforcement agency or office (a) to require any specific design of equipment, facilities, services, features, or system configurations to be adopted by any provider of a wire or electronic communication service, any manufacturer of telecommunications equipment, or any provider of telecommunications support services; (b) to prohibit the adoption of any equipment, facility, service, or feature by any provider of a wire or electronic communication service, any manufacturer of telecommunications equipment, or any provider of telecommunications support services. (Schneier) What this means is that it is unlawful for