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Passing over for a moment the (lack of) ability of the government to keep secret the means of using the backdoor...

Most encryption software (including crypto libraries) is open source. Is he proposing banning open source or just mandating that it only be distributed as binaries by compromised companies?

Does he, and does anyone else proposing this, have the slightest notion what banning good encryption would actually entail?

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Banning open source software is probably not feasible (you can distribute the code as a printed book after all). They would have to:

- ban all Internet traffic that uses non-backdoored encryption (all ISPs would be required to report it)

- ban all amateur radio equipment, including all products one could use to build a satellite dish (like aluminium foil?..); keep a fleet of radio-direction-finding vans circling the streets

Eventually, maybe also ban general-purpose non-backdoored computers.

Also ban hashing algorithms ?

Ban random data ?

And ban the universe from being quantum ?

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