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Australia’s semantic sleight of hand on encrypted messaging revealed

Newly-released documents confirm that the Australian government’s commitment to ‘no backdoors’ to weaken encryption algorithms doesn’t preclude backdoors elsewhere in the secure messaging pipeline.

 

By Stilgherrian

 

“The government will not mandate backdoors. That is, the government will not require that inherent weaknesses be built into encryption,” said a briefing note prepared for Australia’s then-favourite attorney-general, Senator George Brandis QC, on August 4, 2017.

 

The note is one of ten redacted documents released by the Attorney-General’s Department (AGD) on Tuesday under Freedom of Information provisions. It was prepared in the wake of the July 14, 2017, press conference held jointly by Brandis with the prime minister and the acting commissioner of the Australian Federal Police, which foreshadowed legislation to tackle end-to-end encrypted messaging, and the 2017 meeting of the G20 nations where Australia took the lead in that battle.

 

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