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Five Hard Encryption Questions
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BY BENJAMIN WITTES LAWFARE
Over the past few weeks, I have been up to my neck in encryption. Usually, when a public policy issue consumes me like this, it’s because I have taken a strong position on it of one sort or another—one with which people disagree—and the result is a debate. In this case, I haven’t taken a strong position. Rather, I have struggled with a variety of ideas, trying to think my own way through to the right answer. Along the way, I have identified some questions in this debate that are, to my mind anyway, really hard.