It's not possible, in the general case, to provide a backdoor on user supplied encryption, steneography nor user supplied useless and/or trivial garbage.
It is, however, possible to claim to have done so and/or to address some of the most common things people do. -- Raul On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 8:55 PM, <alexmcwhir...@triadic.us> wrote: > On 2016-12-05 05:41, Theodoros wrote: >> >> Hello misc, >> >> I would like your comments on how could the below affect OpenBSD; if at >> all. >> >> link: >> >> http://www.tomshardware.com/news/canada-software-encryption-backdoors-feedback,33131.html >> >> >> Best greetings, >> >> Theodore > > > How i read this, it doesn't look like this will affect OpenBSD as a project. > It would only affect companies using OpenBSD and require them to allow the > Canadian government access (Im assuming by means of some form of official > request) to that decrypted data. For companies storing data in decrypted > form after being encrypted it would seem similar to how this is handled in > the US, but it looks like companies who use end to end ecyrption (which have > no access to decrypted user content) will have to provide a backdoor.
