The global crisis of Privacy in the 21st century also includes
discussions about the right to encryption and restrictions on so-called
end-to-end encryption. In order to communicate confidentially and secure
against eavesdropping, simple and practical encryption is required for
everyone. But how can it be available to everyone? The magic of
replacing legible characters with other apparently random and therefore
illegible characters had been almost religious for centuries: only those
initiated into the invention of a secret language could crack the
messages. Encryption remained Super Secreto - Top Secret - Streng
Geheim! In the age of smartphone and pocket computers, it is now
available to everyone: ever more sophisticated math calculates the
so-called cipher text with corresponding keys in our messengers. Both
keys and encrypted text used to have to be transmitted to the recipient.
In today's Epoch of Cryptography, the transmission of the keys is no
longer necessary: The risky transport route for the keys can even be
omitted! From the fascination of how Cryptography became abstinent in
the transmission of keys - what effect it has on the desire of state
agencies for secondary keys - and how multiple and exponential
encryption makes resistant against the decryption-attempts of
super-quantum-computers ... ... tells Theo Tenzer in this exciting
political, technical and socially relevant innovation and science
portrait on the Third Epoch of Cryptography.
