[AusNOG] Dutton decryption bill

Nick Stallman nick at agentpoint.com
Wed Aug 15 14:07:29 EST 2018


I'd love a government root certificate personally.

It would make it blatantly obvious whenever they wanted to use it. You 
could also probably sniff it out and block traffic using it even if you 
couldn't remove it from your device.


On 15/08/18 13:46, Robert Hudson wrote:
> n Wed, 15 Aug 2018 at 11:46, Martin - StudioCoast 
> <martin.sinclair at studiocoast.com.au 
> <mailto:martin.sinclair at studiocoast.com.au>> wrote:
>
>     Enforcing a government run root certificate on Australian sold
>     devices is not out of the realm of possibility...
>
> A root certificate would only help them if the application used it as 
> part of its encryption processes - whilst a device root certificate is 
> available to applications, they're not forced to use it.
>
>
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