Yuwei Jiao, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Bushra Aloraini, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Nate Cardozo, Senior Staff Attorney
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Encryption is legal in the Five Eyes countries, thanks to our victory in what’s come to be known as the Crypto Wars of the 1990s. Computer security research is increasingly viewed as a boon rather than a scourge. But time is a circle and once again, law enforcement and policy makers around the world are calling for all that to change.