An open letter to Senator Bob Casey on end-to-end encryption

1 · Drew DeVault · March 7, 2020, 4:15 p.m.
To Senator Bob Casey, I’m writing this open letter. As your consitituent, someone who voted for you in 2018, and an expert in software technology, I am disappointed in your support of the EARN IT Act. I am aware that encryption is a challenging technology to understand, even for us software engineers, and that it raises difficult problems for the legislature. The EARN IT Act does not protect our children, and it has grave implications for the freedoms of our citizens. The mathematics underlying ...