I think anybody who uses email in the center of our life needs encryption.
Encryption plays a fundamental role in protecting us all online. It is key to growing the digital economy and delivering public services online. But, like many powerful technologies, encrypted services are used and abused by a small minority of people.
I don't need to understand how encryption works to understand how it's helping the criminals.
Privacy and encryption work, but it's too easy to make a mistake that exposes you.
You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where other people can put their hands on it, you're vulnerable.
Blockchain technology, or distributed ledger technology, is just a way of using the modern sciences of encryption to enable entities to share a common infrastructure for database retention.
There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.
User-controlled default encryption is a real challenge for law enforcement.
All too often, vital electronic evidence has been made unavailable through encryption that doesn't allow for execution of legal process including court-approved search warrants.
The concern is over what will happen as strong encryption becomes commonplace with all digital communications and stored data. Right now the use of encryption isn't all that widespread, but that state of affairs is expected to change rapidly.
