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@@ -382,7 +382,29 @@ in order to send information, as occurs with the popular PGP implementation GPG. Additionaly the open implementation of cryptographic tools enables developers to integrate secure versions of these tools into new programs, allowing for the easy development of -programs that allow encrypted communications. +programs that allow encrypted communications. The demand for +cryptography in less popular open source applications is arguably +expected, yet there is nonetheless widespread adoption in more popular +software and proprietry software. Companies such as Facebook have +pushed for end to end encryption in their products and the software +industry at large has adopted encrypted standards such as HTTPS. There +are seemingly two sources of resistance to fully encryted +communications. The first of these is the largest, which is government +intervention. Government positions around the world which are opposed +to encryption seemingly have double standards. Just as the Enigma and +Lorentz machines were critical to the Nazi war effort in order to +conduct critical communications and the breaking of those ciphers were +critical to the Allies, encryption remains critical to government +communications and state sponsored espionage. Governments maintain up +to date cryptographic systems in order to keep their own +communications secure, yet fight hard against encryption in the name +of national security and to fight crime. In some ways this is a valid +argument: wide availability to cryptography arguably lowers the +barrier to entry for terror or cime and reduces the ability law +enforcement has to deal with it. Nonetheless, it seems that reducing +the availability of encryption to the pubic would not decrease the +opportunity for criminals or terrorists to do harm (todo - discuss +earlier). .nr HY 0 .ad l |