“Strong encryption” means a different thing to government officials, privacy advocates and those in the tech community, and as such, stalls universal encryption policy efforts, The Washington Post reports. For example, if emails are “warrant proof,” it makes the government uneasy; if there’s a “backdoor,” privacy champions become concerned. “The definition debates are just part of the difficulty of coming up with a policy for encryption,” the report states. “A more deep-seated problem is that technologists have long said it is impossible to provide the type of access law enforcement officials want without fundamentally undermining the security of communications products. Law enforcement officials have, in turn, suggested that tech companies just aren't trying hard enough to come up with a solution.” (Registration may be required to access this story.)
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