Whittaker's Keynote at NDSS 2024: AI, Encryption, and a New Era of Threats
2024-12-18
At the 2024 NDSS Symposium, Meredith Whittaker, president of the Signal Foundation, delivered a keynote address reflecting on the 'Crypto Wars' of the 90s. She highlighted how political, technical, and commercial pressures have shaped today's encryption landscape. Whittaker warned against viewing the current situation as simply 'Crypto Wars 2.0,' arguing that an economic engine driven by personal data, surveillance technology, and AI/ML poses a fundamentally different threat than the government-dominated encryption landscape of the 90s. She stressed the need for a new approach, with NDSS research at the forefront of this response.
AI
Encryption