France wants to wear with Germany a European and international initiative on encrypting communications, which complicates the fight against terrorism, announced Bernard Cazeneuve, Thursday, August 11. The interior minister will work on this issue with his German counterpart on 23 August in Paris, “for us on this launch a European initiative to prepare a more international initiative to deal with this new challenge, “ he said.
” This is a central issue in the fight against terrorism, many of the messages exchanged for the commission of terrorist attacks, are now encrypted by means of “, has he added to the end of a defense council at the Elysee. Mr Cazeneuve said “the need to deal internationally because it is not one country that can take initiative” .
Mr. Cazeneuve gave no details as to the type of proposals that France plans to do. For several years, a lively debate pits around the world, some governments and Internet service publishers, supported by the vast majority of encryption experts. The British government, a time threatened to legally force the giants of the Net to provide the keys to decrypt messages, or install “backdoors” in its software. In early 2016, the FBI had launched a major showdown with Apple, he intended to compel release the contents of an encrypted iPhone that belonged to the perpetrators of the attack to San Bernardino.
When asked whether he wanted the software authors provide States the means to decrypt these communications, that many of them refuse to do, Mr. Cazeneuve said: “France will proposals, I sent in a number in my German counterpart. “
Experts skeptical
encryption Experts are very skeptical face such demands, arguing that any flaw in software will inevitably operated by third parties, and the encryption used by many banking, business, or computer security is an indispensable tool for the operation of the Internet.
Since the revelations of Edward Snowden on mass surveillance practiced by the American NSA, many major players have increased the security of their services by encrypting or strengthening encryption. WhatsApp, the popular messaging application, has deployed worldwide encryption “end to end” messages: they are now indecipherable by anyone other than the addressee, and even the company can not access their content.
the organization Islamic state recommends its members and supporters to use Telegram, a messaging application that also allows you to send encrypted messages. The two assassins of Father Jacques Hamel, in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, including using the application. But if it can send encrypted messages, at least one of the two men regularly used the function of “chain” Telegram, which enables broadcast messages to a group of people, and that is it not encrypted.
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