James Comey once expressed his opinion that there are two sides to the encryption debate, privacy and the ability of law enforcement to obtain information. Both sides are important, and he never made up his mind on what the right balance should be. Now his time to influence such things is past.

Reading this, I knew he was right, but formed my own opinion that math and reality should decide that balance. Math has spoken, and it is in favor of encryption. The day may come when the pendulum swings back and a way is revealed to break all forms of encryption, if that is the case, then so be it, then and now doing math should remain legal.

(Not exactly a fresh idea, but I wanted to write it.)