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Schneier on Security0 Hot0 comments2 min read
Schneier on Security
A new academic paper revisits the 'Going Dark' debate, tracing three rounds of government-versus-encryption conflicts from the 1990s Crypto Wars through today's controversies over end-to-end encryption (E2EE). The paper identifies five technically distinct E2EE scenarios with different lawful access implications, argues that E2EE is deeply embedded across the modern tech stack (TLS, SSH, VPNs, Zero Trust), and concludes that broad laws restricting E2EE would severely harm cybersecurity, commerce, and government operations. It maintains that lessons from earlier rounds — the 'least trusted country problem' and the 'golden age of surveillance' — still apply, and that new government claims for restricting encryption deserve skepticism.
Source: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/end-to-end-encryption-and-going-dark.html. 8sync News only summarizes and links out; content copyright belongs to the authors and original sources.
