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If only there were a way to cryptographically verify such things.

This bill was introduced last summer: https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/The%20Digital%20A...

Every time I start to feel despondent about the state of the US Congress, I remember that Wyden exists, and I feel a twinge of hope.

Let's hope what was proposed comes to fruition while remaining interoperable with the EU.

It would be such a "two steps forward, one step back"-move if it doesn't.

Right. There should be agency run certificate authorities for this. One to issue certificates to law enforcement, and one to issue certificates to judges

A valid warrant would include the intended judge and be signed by the department and the issuing officer before going to the judge, then signed by that judge’s cert to be authorized.

And such an approach would absolutely work, at least one country has used PKI for such purposes for almost more a decade.

This attack vector from the article? Unheard of clownery.

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