Russia says it can collect encryption keys to decode information from WhatsApp
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Re: Russia says it can collect encryption keys to decode information from WhatsApp
#2Seems like to me this sort of bluff works on the average users and not the hardcore users who understand what they are doing, so it's entirely fruitless. Unless it's not a bluff, in which case we would wonder why the hell they announced it.
Re: Russia says it can collect encryption keys to decode information from WhatsApp
#3Is it OK to flag stories with auto-play video ads?
Re: Russia says it can collect encryption keys to decode information from WhatsApp
#4Apparently they required companies to provide their private keys. Once you have that you can capture traffic and decrypt it.
Re: Russia says it can collect encryption keys to decode information from WhatsApp
#5Apparently they required companies to provide their private keys. Once you have that you can capture traffic and decrypt it.
Whatsapp, Signal, and Telegram generate the keys on the clients to provide end-to-end encryption.
The companies themselves do not have keys to provide to anyone.
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#6Many things mentioned in this article are not actually true. The publisher seems biased. Russian officials say different things.
I think the most Russia will do in the nearest 5 years is the same as Kazakhstan's officials: force users to install special certificates if they use secured connection.
And American and European govs likely have plans to do such things too. They have already copied a lot of laws about surveillance from China, Russia. etc.
Re: Russia says it can collect encryption keys to decode information from WhatsApp
#7I think we need to wait for someone that understands Russian to chime in and tell us whether this article interpreted this correctly, or if this is just a law giving the state the authority to collect your private keys from your systems (via however they want to accomplish this)
Re: Russia says it can collect encryption keys to decode information from WhatsApp
#8Is it OK to flag stories with auto-play video ads?
No. That is not an intended use of the flagging feature on Hackernews.
Re: Russia says it can collect encryption keys to decode information from WhatsApp
#9I think we need to wait for someone that understands Russian to chime in and tell us whether this article interpreted this correctly, or if this is just a law giving the state the authority to collect your private keys from your systems (via however they want to accomplish this)
The linked fsb.ru update says nothing about ability to collect encryption keys by themselves.
It only says that the method with which the companies will be able to give them the encryption keys is approved.
Still, my russian may be rusty, but it seems to me, the FSB just documented a procedure which the companies will need to follow to provide the FSB with the keys.
Re: Russia says it can collect encryption keys to decode information from WhatsApp
#10Is it OK to flag stories with auto-play video ads?
Why aren't you running ublock and noscript?