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[E2ee] A Civil Society Glossary and Primer for End-to-End Encryption Policy in 2022

Alec Muffett <alec.muffett@gmail.com> Thu, 30 June 2022 14:38 UTC

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Subject: [E2ee] A Civil Society Glossary and Primer for End-to-End Encryption Policy in 2022
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A few weeks ago it was with great delight that I accepted a request from
Privacy International to write a report for them: to share my perspectives
on technical aspects of end-to-end encryption, with specific focus on
helping civil society organisations better understand these aspects when
considering policy.

We came to an agreeable arrangement where I retain copyright and am free to
republish this report to the general public, which I do under the terms of
the CC-BY-4.0 licence.

The report is now in a state of being complete enough for publishing…
although over time it will doubtless be updated with errata, fixes, new
content, etc; and a list of diffs (i.e. changes) will be available for
transparency. The URL for the report is:

    https://alecmuffett.com/alecm/e2e-primer/

…available in web-optimised and print-optimised HTML and Markdown.

I hope that it may help at least amuse, if not inform.

    - alec

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