ENCRYPTION
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Subject: Science and tech
Context: Leading Intelligence agencies has written to tech companies to seek a way around encryption.
Concept:
- End-to-end encryption (E2EE) is a system of communication where only the communicating users can read the messages.
- In principle, it prevents potential eavesdroppers – including telecom providers, Internet providers, and even the provider of the communication service – from being able to access the cryptographic keys needed to decrypt the conversation. End-to-end encryption is intended to prevent data being read or secretly modified, other than by the true sender and recipient(s).
- The messages are encrypted by the sender but the third party does not have a means to decrypt them, and stores them encrypted. The recipient retrieves the encrypted data and decrypts it themselves.
