Joan Feigenbaum, Yale University

Abstract

Governments around the world are asking whether the increasing use of encryption is a problem or essential to meeting growing security threats. On the one hand, law-enforcement and security agencies complain about "going dark." On the other hand, computer-security experts warn that forcing "exceptional-access" features into devices or protocols would create unacceptable security risks. In this talk, I will briefly summarize some of the arguments that have been made for and against "exceptional-access," explain why I believe that "exceptional-access" features should not be mandated at this time, and then explain why I think that the question deserves further study.

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