By 2030, real encryption may be illegal in the European Union. Heck, Spain wants to ban end-to-end encryption entirely It’s already under attack in the UK. Be sure that the USA and China will be nipping at their heels.

Because mathematics are mathematics, there’s not actual safe way to provide lawful government access to encrypted communications. If the government has a key, at some point the key will leak. The shared keys for DVD CSS and AACS leaked. Any shared keys for decrypting content eventually leak, and there’s no sound way to update content to disable those private keys.

In the latest edition of Casey Newton’s newsletter, Platformer, he makes the case for why the plaintiffs in Gonzalez vs Google botched their oral arguments. The mechanism is fascinating.