{"id":10725,"date":"2015-12-03T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T14:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/?p=10725"},"modified":"2017-09-24T08:11:45","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T12:11:45","slug":"golden-key-encryption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/golden-key-encryption\/10725\/","title":{"rendered":"Clavis Aurea, or Does the “Golden Key” actually solve encryption issues"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following recent terrorist attacks accusations against encrypted means of online communications once again became louder. However the proposed solutions could create even more problems.<\/p>\n

Governments around the world \u2013 from Russia to US and from China to UK \u2013 seem to preach the same mantra: people\u2019s communications are encrypted so strongly that governments cannot access it when there is a need. It\u2019s said to be the main reason why the police cannot efficiently investigate cases involving pedophiles or terrorists, so \u2018something has to be done about it.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Solutions purposed by governments essentially presuppose that the existing encryption systems should contain certain vulnerabilities, so national agencies would have an opportunity to intercept the correspondence as they see fit.<\/p>\n

In a recent article Washington Post created a rather poetic term<\/a> for this approach \u2013 the Golden Key. The authors cite various cases of kidnapping and other criminal deeds when the investigators could not progress with their search, because the \u2018golden key\u2019 system was not deployed. The writers state that all tech companies, including the likes of Google, Apple, Facebook and Telegram, should grant these \u2018golden keys\u2019 to governments.<\/p>\n

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The Washington Post Urges That A Compromise Is Needed On Smartphone Encryption http:\/\/t.co\/qcKk2PWBjp<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Digg Tech (@diggtech) October 5, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n