“The ability to freely develop and use encryption provides the cornerstone for today’s global economy,” reads the global coalition’s letter. “Economic growth in the digital age is powered by the ...

FBI Director James Comey says he wants to engage with stakeholder on possible solutions to the encryption dilemma. FBI Director James Comey again sounded the alarm about the potential consequences to ...

The FBI's request to put a backdoor into encryption is a huge threat to national security, and needlessly puts millions of American lives at risk. Encryption is the very foundation of networked ...

Government agencies should not underestimate the bandwidth requirements of good security, a reader writes in response to an article on digital signatures. Ms Spencer should address the bandwidth ...

EU law enforcement authorities are proposing laws that are impractical, excessive and counterproductive (“EU targets greater access to digitally encrypted messages”, September 16). Encryption is a ...

Cryptography is nearly as old as human language. Many civilizations felt the need to conceal their messages using more or less sophisticated encryption methods, as demonstrated by some documentary ...

Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) has come out in support of encryption as being necessary to ensure national security and human rights, rejecting any legislation that could ban or undermine ...

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Nearly 200 cyber security experts and activists from 42 countries are rallying against government plans to weaken encryption and force the use of backdoors. Major tech players have been sparring with ...

Photojournalists and filmmakers of all stripes have joined together to send a message to the world's leading camera manufacturers: give us better tools to protect our media. In an open letter ...

Did David Leyonhjelm not prove the "illusionary superiority" of his own intelligence in "The great nanny state delusion" (July 14). His premise was that academics demonstrated "illusionary superiority ...

Nick Statt is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more than a decade. Apple has long been a proponent for strong on-device encryption, ...