The NSA's latest thought probably breaks every record of debauchery and should be put in the Guinness Book of Records. THE The Washington Post, reports that the US Secret Service is calling for the creation of a “Mr key” encryption for all products to be split and given to various organizations and services.
The idea was mentioned in a speech Michael Rogers, director of the NSA, at University of Princeton.
"We do not want a backdoor," Rogers reportedly said, "I want a regular front door. And I want the front door to have multiple locks. Large secure locks. ” His idea is that the key to the front door will be held by several services, and only if they all decide to use it together will it be possible to decrypt it.
But Rogers did not mention any of the conditions under which the services would agree to unlock encrypted data. He also didn't mention what happens if someone rebuilds a key that obviously should be hard-coded into a phone's firmware for example. He did not say what the conditions would be under which keys to the “services” would be given, nor what those “services” would be.
According to the Washington Post, this idea is not the only one that the White House geniuses think. The newspaper also reports that NSA simply looks at a mirror image of the messages sent by cell phones, under judicial supervision (sic).
The judge may "direct a business to set up a mirror account so that law enforcement can prosecute by reading the text messages shortly after they are sent" (again sic)
