Making sense of the encryption debate

Tuesday, December 22, 2015 - 06:31 in Mathematics & Economics

Last week, candidates in both the Republican and Democratic presidential debates offered some interesting views about the Internet. Whether it was Donald Trump suggesting that parts of the Internet be closed, saying "I would certainly be open to closing areas where we are at war with somebody," or Hillary Clinton calling on government and tech companies to join together in "a Manhattan-like project," tech policy and its place in the national security dialogue took center stage. To better understand the encryption debate, we spoke with Daniel Wichs, an expert in modern cryptography and an assistant professor in the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern.

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