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More Encryption Is Not the Solution: Cryptography as privacy works only if both ends work at it in good faith.

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The recent exposure of the dragnet-style surveillance of Internet traffic has provoked a number of responses that are variations of the general formula, "More encryption is the solution." This is not the case. In fact, more encryption will probably only make the privacy crisis worse than it already is.

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    Queue  Volume 11, Issue 7
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    July 2013
    36 pages
    ISSN:1542-7730
    EISSN:1542-7749
    DOI:10.1145/2508834
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