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UK passes "online safety" bill making end-to-end encryption impossible (www.reuters.com)

submitted 1 year ago by El_Dorado@beehaw.org to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] notfromhere@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They are talking about asymmetric encryption which has a keypair, private key (kept secret only by the owner) and a public key that is used by everyone that would send them a message. You can’t decrypt the message with the public key when it is encrypted using the public key, you must use the private key to decrypt it.

[–] 520@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, I missed the public key part.

That is true, you could do that

[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 2 points 1 year ago

http://pgp.mit.edu/

Yeah, they're a bit cart ahead of horse on that one.