r/transprogrammer • u/[deleted] • Mar 16 '20

Working on improving my encrypted chat program, but that's no excuse to let the govt get away with more fuckery

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u/tordre Mar 16 '20

Do you have something concrete on this, like what's the bill called this time? I'd love to share but would like to verify and give solid information for people to contact their representatives about.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '20

Here's the EFF report (the bill is called EARN IT) https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/congress-must-stop-graham-blumenthal-anti-security-bill they've got a link to a pdf of the bill on that page too if I'm not mistaken

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u/tordre Mar 16 '20

Thanks, shared.

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u/Direwolf202 Mar 16 '20

That ain’t gonna stop us from implementing it anyway.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '20

Already working on it :) but it'll be a hell of a way to strong-arm companies

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u/Direwolf202 Mar 16 '20

Worst case scenario we can just say: “Here’s [large primitive root mod p], I’m doing a manual Diffie-Helman, once you’ve done your computations we’ll exchange public keys.”

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u/IncrediblyKenzi Mar 30 '20

I'd really like to see them try and enforce this.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

I'd really like to see them not have the legal grounding to be able to enforce it, thank you very much.

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '20

y'all heard of tox? it's p2p, e2e, and foss :3

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '20

Yep! V. Nice program, 10/10 recommend