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Dutch & French police take down Matrix encrypted chat app; 2.3 million messages captured (nltimes.nl)

submitted 2 weeks ago by CAVOK@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] finderscult@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 weeks ago

Not really. Certainly some "encryption" algorithms or really implementations have backdoors, but RSA for example doesn't. Encryption is only worthwhile if it's mathematically sound, and you can't backdoor mathematics without some random undergrad working on their maths degree figuring out for fun.