Obama: cryptographers who don't believe in magic ponies are "fetishists," "absolutists"

We have protocols for multikey encryption. Data is secured with public key A and can be decrypted by private key 1 or private key 2.

So he’s correct that there is a way for crypto to be secure from the general public but allow law enforcement a master key to decrypt data.

Whether this is a good idea is, of course, a matter for debate.

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