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Florida Backdoor Bill Fails

ID: f3da1f3e-f9f8-5410-b6f6-c8124190d980

STIX ID: report--f3da1f3e-f9f8-5410-b6f6-c8124190d980

Feed Name: Schneier on Security

Date Published: 2025-05-12

Date Updated: 2026-04-19

Author: Bruce Schneier

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A commentary examining the legal and technical challenges of proving encryption and key knowledge under UK law (RIPA/“Snoopers’ Charter”), highlighting Shannon’s unicity distance and perfect secrecy, the prevalence of automated key negotiation in HTTPS, and the practicality of subliminal/covert channels and ciphers that yield plausible plaintext—undermining the efficacy of backdoors and complicating compelled-decryption cases.

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