End-to-end encryption is being offered to better secure the platform after it experienced security issues.

Zoom is rolling out its end-to-end encryption offering as a technical preview for 30 days as the company seeks feedback from its users, the company announced during its two-day virtual Zoomtopia event.

The enhanced encryption for both free and paid users comes after Zoom in May announced plans to build an end-to-end encryption (E2EE) model into the popular videoconferencing platform to increase meeting and distance learning security. In a press release, the company says this initial roll out is the first of four phases in releasing the E2EE model.

Zoom earlier this year took90 days to address security concerns with the platform after reports of hijackers easily joining calls as usage skyrocketed in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdown. The company added new security features, like better meeting controls, stronger password protections and enhanced encryption.

According to the company, its E2EE uses the same GCM encryption currently offered to Zoom users, but where those encryptions live has changed. Zooms cloud typically generates encryption keys and distributes them to meeting participants using Zoom apps as they join. With this new offering, the meetings host generates encryption keys and uses public key cryptography to distribute keys to the other meeting participants.

That turns Zooms servers into oblivious relays that never see the encryption keys required to decrypt meeting content, according to the company.

All participants must have the setting enabled to join a call that is end-to-end encrypted. Hosts can enable the setting at the account, group and user level, and can be locked at the account or group level, according to the company.

In the first phase, all participants must join from the Zoom desktop client, mobile app or Zoom Rooms.

End-to-end encryption is another stride toward making Zoom the most secure communications platform in the world, said Zoom CEO Eric S. Yuan in a statement. This phase of our E2EE offering provides the same security as existing end-to-end-encrypted messaging platforms, but with the video quality and scale that has made Zoom the communications solution of choice for hundreds of millions of people and the worlds largest enterprises.

At least in this version, enabling E2EE will disable some features, like joining before the host, cloud recording, streaming, live transcription, breakout rooms, polling, 1:1 private chat and meeting reactions.

The company is planning to roll out better identity management and E2EE SSO integration as part of the second phase, which is tentatively scheduled for 2021.

This article originally ran in CS sister publication MyTechDecisions.com and has been edited. Zachary Comeau is TDs web editor.

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CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cornamis break-through computing architecture is able to scale performance without penalties to deliver real-time computing for a number of critical and complex applications. The companys proprietary technology reduces the use of power sources and lowers latency, while vastly increasing the compute performance for todays massive datasets, whether at the edge or the cloud. This most notably includes accelerating Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) for real-time computing on encrypted data sets, which is especially vital for cloud security.

FHE has long been described as transformative for data privacy and cloud security. This post von-Neumann algorithm was developed to enable computing on encrypted data sets while keeping the underlying data secure. In other words, assume that computing environments are compromised; so, secure the data.

Enabling FHE is a game-changer in cloud computing as it allows for extracting valuable data analytics without ever decrypting the data to expose the underlying plaintext data, whether it is sensitive intellectual property (IP), financial information, personally identifiable information (PII), intelligence insight, or beyond. FHE is a significant and critical technology for enterprise, industry, fintech, healthcare, academia and governments given the cost and damage associated with the growing number of cybercrimes and breaches at the trillions-of-dollars level. However, the challenge to date has been that FHE too computationally intensive to be commercially practical until Cornami.

Paul Master, co-founder and CTO of Cornami, is speaking at the Linley Processor Event on October 22 and will be disclosing Cornamis unique, scalable TruStream reconfigurable computational fabric that is a key ingredient of its innovative architecture. The company has achieved over 90 issued patents supporting its next-generation fully programable software-defined technology.

Data Is the New Oil - Next Generation Machine Learning (ML)

The value of analytics and data-driven insights are undeniable, and it has been coined by many that Data is the New Oil. So, what if a company could use your data without ever having direct access to it? FHE makes it possible to analyze or manipulate encrypted data without revealing the data to anyone. This facilitates secure information-sharing across authority boundaries without sacrificing the confidentiality and privacy of the data, delivering tremendous value to multiple markets including fintech, healthcare, mega-web, smart cities, governments and more, while supporting next-generation Machine Learning (ML) encrypted neural networks.

In my role as CEO Emeritus at Mentor Graphics, I have been asked to speak at a number of events worldwide on AI and ML, as well as other semiconductor trends, stated Dr. Walden Wally Rhines, president and CEO of Cornami. Of course, AI continues to drive a great deal of excitement and hype in technology and financial circles with analysts predicting it will drive trillions of dollars in spending and value creation during the coming decades. However, in order to achieve value from the data that drives these markets, the industry needs to address data security.

Massive security breaches bring regulatory pressure to restrict data collection and cloud-based information with the realization that regardless of effort, there are attack points at multiple levels, including risk from employees and/or consultants. FHE ushers in a new era, whereby encrypted data can be collected and built into encrypted machine learning models. Encrypted queries can be made to these models and the encrypted results returned to the user generating the query. The data is never revealed; it can be sold and/or otherwise shared again and again. Many have heralded this revolution as Data Is the New Oil because of the ability to protect and reuse the data with FHE.

In my research of this market for the government, it appeared that delivering FHE in real-time was at least a decade away, added Rhines. Cornamis unique architecture has achieved a milestone in its work with a market partner to validate the 106 performance required for real time performance, bringing FHE eight-to-ten years forward. It is a game-changer for cloud security and the reason I decided to join the company as its CEO and president.

Computing requirements have dramatically changed since the von Neumann era that still underlies current conventional processors, stated Paul Master, co-founder and CTO of Cornami. FHE and next-generation machine learning with encrypted neural nets require a different architecture design in order to meet requirements. This is why we built a ground- up new architecture, beginning with a unique software programming model. This software defines our TruStream computational fabric that can dynamically reconfigure the processing cores to best match the algorithm for the highest efficiency. Each core is independently programmable and can dynamically scale from thousands to millions of cores to deliver real-time computing without incurring penalties with regards to power consumption, latency and cost.

Cornami is currently working with strategic partners for FHE and other ML driven markets, such as autonomous systems and vehicles, as well as robotics, sensors, and image detection. It is expanding its early customer access program. The company will release further details shortly.

About CORNAMI

Cornami is focused on the deployment of intelligent computing in real-time environments. The company has developed a scalable and massively parallel-processor architecture to address the shift in computing needs for the ever-increasing massive data sets of today, and into the future. This game-changing, software-defined technology delivers unprecedented scalability from thousands of cores on a single chip to millions across a system. All individually programmable. Cornami empowers developers, large enterprise, IoT, and edge-to-cloud computing to deliver high performance anywhere and on any device at the lowest power and latency. http://www.cornami.com

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The global market for Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) is projected to reach US$2. 6 billion by 2025 driven by the strong focus shed on automation and production efficiency in the era of smart factory and industry 4.New York, Oct. 24, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "Global Automated Guided Vehicle Industry" - https://www.reportlinker.com/p05797945/?utm_source=GNW 0. Smart manufacturing is the new revolution that will mark the next generation of production. Self-aware, self-optimized, self-configured equipment with the ability to wirelessly communicate with each other; advanced networking; real-time controls; more closer alignment of business management and plant floor activities and supply chains; additive manufacturing are few of the disruptive smart factory trends currently underway. Among these, "automation" lies at the heart of the smart factory concept. Almost like the beating heart, automation provides the foundation for the creation of knowledge-embedded manufacturing operations. Automating labor intensive operations is the starting point for automation, and as the most labor intensive process in manufacturing and warehousing, material handling is at the bottom of the automation pyramid. Defined as the movement of products and materials throughout the manufacturing process, material handling is labor intensive and expensive. Benefits of automating material handling include reduced human role in unproductive, repetitive and labor intensive tasks and the ensuing freeing up of resources for other core activities; greater throughput capability; better space utilization; increased production control; inventory control; improved stock rotation; reduced operation cost; improved worker safety; reduced losses from damage; and reduction in handling costs. The importance of production efficiency can be put into perspective by the fact that over 55% of factory operation managers earmark budgets for investing in resources that support achievement of higher production rates. Technology innovation in automation, in this regard, is a key factor to boost productivity. Benefiting from increased investments in factory automation are AGVs, the workhorse of every processing and manufacturing plant. AGVs help automate repetitive, labor intensive tasks such as carrying pallets, rolls, racks, carts, and containers. Modern AGVs have come a long way from simple materials handlers to the current intelligent autonomous robots that find their way across the plant floor using advanced auditory or visual or environmental stimulus. On the plant floor, these highly functional smart robots ensure on-time delivery of parts to the production/assembly line. Benefits offered by AGVs include round the clock transit of materials; traceability that ensures that the plant manager remains informed of the material movement around the facility; ability to time-stamp pick-up, transit and delivery of items which can help in route optimization and improvements; ability to integrate information generated by AGVs into enterprise resource planning (ERP) or materials resource planning (MRP) systems; among others. AGVs are moving from wired operation to wireless operations. Benefits of wireless AGVs include enhanced plant safety; operational flexibility; superior delivery speeds as it eliminates bottlenecks and obstruction in movements commonly experienced with wired operation; ability to operate AGV fleets on the plant floor; overthrows the need to modify or reconstruct the factor environment which is often needed for wired AGVs; changes in route plans can be easily executed as wireless AGVs can record and store images, identify obstructions and calculate their position; ability to autonomously take decisions about the best route in a manner that avoids collisions. The United States and Europe represent large markets worldwide with a combined share of 52.3% of the global market. China ranks as the fastest growing market with a CAGR of 9.4% over the analysis period supported by the Made in China (MIC) 2025 initiative that aims to bring the country`s massive manufacturing and production sector into the forefront of global technology competitiveness. Inspired by Germany`s "Industry 4.0", MIC 2025 will enhance adoption of automation, digital and IoT technologies. Faced with new and changing economic forces, the Chinese government through this initiative is stepping up investments in cutting edge robotics, automation and digital IT technologies to competitively integrate into the global manufacturing chain dominated by industrialized economies such as EU, Germany and the United States and move from being a low cost competitor to a direct added-value competitor.Read the full report: https://www.reportlinker.com/p05797945/?utm_source=GNW I. INTRODUCTION, METHODOLOGY & REPORT SCOPE II. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1. MARKET OVERVIEW Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) Types of Automated Guided Vehicles Forklift Truck Tow Vehicle Pallet Truck Other Types of AGVs Navigation Technology in AGVs Applications of AGVs Advantages of AGVs Standards for AGVs Focus on Automation & Production Efficiency, the Foundation for Growing Investments in AGV Tow Vehicles: The Largest Vehicle Type Segment in the Global AGV Market Asia-Pacific to Spearhead Future Growth, while the US and Europe Dominate AGV Market Global Economic Outlook Real GDP Growth Rates in % by Country/Region for the Years 2017 through 2020 Global Competitor Market Shares Automated Guided Vehicle Competitor Market Share Scenario Worldwide (in %): 2019 Impact of Covid-19 and a Looming Global Recession 2. FOCUS ON SELECT PLAYERS ABB (Switzerland) Amerden Inc. (USA) Balyo, Inc. (USA) Bastian Solutions, Inc. (USA) Daifuku Co., Ltd. (Japan) Hyster-Yale Materials Handling, Inc. (USA) Jungheinrich AG (Germany) John Bean Technologies Corporation (USA) KION Group AG (Germany) Dematic Group (USA) Konecranes India Pvt. Ltd. (India) KUKA AG (Germany) Swisslog Holding AG (Switzerland) Murata Machinery, Ltd. (Japan) Seegrid Corporation (USA) SSI Schaefer - Fritz Schaefer GmbH (Germany) Toyota Industries Corporation (Japan) Vanderlande Industries (The Netherlands) Universal Robots A/S (Denmark) 3. MARKET TRENDS & DRIVERS Focus on Implementing High Standards of Safety at Workplaces Favors AGV Market Forklifts-related Accidents Raise Need for AGVs: Percentage Breakdown of Number of Fatalities Attributed to Forklift by Type of Accident in the US AGVs: The Future of Manufacturing World AGVs Assist in Enhancing Operational Efficiency of Factories AGV Systems Promise to Transform the Logistics Marketplace AGVs Transforming Intralogistic Processes in Factory Automation Space Rapidly Growing Logistics Industry Presents Favorable Outlook for AGVs Market Global Logistics Market Revenues in US$ Billion for the Years 2019, 2021, 2023 and 2025 AGVs Offer Significant Benefits for Warehousing Operations With Global E-Commerce Sales Skyrocketing, Emergence of E- Commerce Warehouses and Need to Automate Supply Chain Spurs Investments into AGVs Robust Growth Anticipated for E-Commerce: An Opportunity to Tap for AGVs Market Global B2C E-Commerce Sales in US$ Trillion for the Years 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2023 Global E-Commerce Market as a % of Retail Sales for the Period 2017-2023 Leading Retail E-Commerce Countries Worldwide: Ranked by Sales in $ Billion for 2019E Rapid Adoption of Automation Technologies in Material Handling Processes Fuel AGVs Market Growth AGVs Emerge as Important Constituents of Industry 4.0 Revolution and Shift towards Smart Manufacturing Facilities As Industry 4.0 and Logistics 4.0 Come Together, AGVs to Play an Even Greater Role Advancements Lead to Expanded Opportunities for AGVs AGV System in Healthcare Settings: An Area of Growth AGVs Increase Productivity in Maritime Industry Automotive Industry: A Major End-Use Market for AGVs Enabling Flexible and Efficient Production Operations: A Significant Advantage of AGVs in Automotive Industry Navigation Technologies for AGVs in Automotive Assembly Lines Automotive Companies Take the Lead in Automation of Automated Guided Vehicles Increase in Automobile Production: An Opportunity for AGVs Market Global Passenger Cars Production (In Million Units) by Geographic Region/Country for the Years 2017, 2019, 2022 AGVs Adoption in Food & Beverage Manufacturing Bolstered by Flexibility, Scalability and Safety Advantages and Ability to Address Labor Shortage Top Reasons for Adoption of AGVs in Food & Beverage Manufacturing Global Sales of Processed Foods in US$ Billion for Years 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2020 Global Beverages Market in US$ Trillion for the Years 2018, 2020 & 2022 Charging of Battery-Operated AGVs Becomes a Challenge for Warehouses With Electrically-driven AGVs Becoming Integral to Logistics Applications, Need for Sophisticated Charging Systems Gains Prominence Growing Significance of AGVs in Process Automation Gives Rise to Safety Concerns Emergence of Advanced Navigation Systems to Result in Greater Scalability and Flexibility of AGVs Advances in Motion Control Technology to Play a Critical Role in Enhancing Efficiency and Reducing Footprint of AGVs New Technologies with Tremendous Potential for AGVs Market AGVs to Benefit from the Increasing Implementation of AI in Factories Smart Technologies such as AI, IoT and Machine Learning Foster Development of Faster and Smarter AGVs AGVs Address the Needs of SMEs Issues Related to the Use of AGVs for Material Handling Applications Autonomous Vehicles: The Ultimate Future of Material Handling Automation Innovations & Advancements Numerous Benefits Provided by AGVs to Drive their Adoption ILIAD Project Seeks to Integrate Artificial Intelligence into Autonomous Forklifts ASTI and 5TONIC Team Up to Research on Application of 5G Technology to AGVs Rocla Develops New AGV Solution, Rocla ART, for Warehousing Operations Mecfor Unveils AGV Prototype for Use in Aluminum Smelters 4. GLOBAL MARKET PERSPECTIVE Table 1: World Current & Future Analysis for Automated Guided Vehicle by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2020 through 2027 Table 2: World Historic Review for Automated Guided Vehicle by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2012 through 2019 Table 3: World 15-Year Perspective for Automated Guided Vehicle by Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets for Years 2012, 2020 & 2027 Table 4: World Current & Future Analysis for Forklift Truck by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2020 through 2027 Table 5: World Historic Review for Forklift Truck by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2012 through 2019 Table 6: World 15-Year Perspective for Forklift Truck by Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa for Years 2012, 2020 & 2027 Table 7: World Current & Future Analysis for Tow Vehicle by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2020 through 2027 Table 8: World Historic Review for Tow Vehicle by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2012 through 2019 Table 9: World 15-Year Perspective for Tow Vehicle by Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa for Years 2012, 2020 & 2027 Table 10: World Current & Future Analysis for Pallet Truck by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2020 through 2027 Table 11: World Historic Review for Pallet Truck by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2012 through 2019 Table 12: World 15-Year Perspective for Pallet Truck by Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa for Years 2012, 2020 & 2027 Table 13: World Current & Future Analysis for Other Types by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2020 through 2027 Table 14: World Historic Review for Other Types by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2012 through 2019 Table 15: World 15-Year Perspective for Other Types by Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa for Years 2012, 2020 & 2027 Table 16: World Current & Future Analysis for Lead by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2020 through 2027 Table 17: World Historic Review for Lead by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2012 through 2019 Table 18: World 15-Year Perspective for Lead by Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa for Years 2012, 2020 & 2027 Table 19: World Current & Future Analysis for Nickel by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2020 through 2027 Table 20: World Historic Review for Nickel by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2012 through 2019 Table 21: World 15-Year Perspective for Nickel by Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa for Years 2012, 2020 & 2027 Table 22: World Current & Future Analysis for Lithium Ion by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2020 through 2027 Table 23: World Historic Review for Lithium Ion by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2012 through 2019 Table 24: World 15-Year Perspective for Lithium Ion by Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa for Years 2012, 2020 & 2027 Table 25: World Current & Future Analysis for Other Battery Types by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2020 through 2027 Table 26: World Historic Review for Other Battery Types by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2012 through 2019 Table 27: World 15-Year Perspective for Other Battery Types by Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa for Years 2012, 2020 & 2027 Table 28: World Current & Future Analysis for Laser Guidance by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2020 through 2027 Table 29: World Historic Review for Laser Guidance by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2012 through 2019 Table 30: World 15-Year Perspective for Laser Guidance by Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa for Years 2012, 2020 & 2027 Table 31: World Current & Future Analysis for Vision Guidance by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2020 through 2027 Table 32: World Historic Review for Vision Guidance by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2012 through 2019 Table 33: World 15-Year Perspective for Vision Guidance by Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa for Years 2012, 2020 & 2027 Table 34: World Current & Future Analysis for Other Navigation Technologies by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2020 through 2027 Table 35: World Historic Review for Other Navigation Technologies by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2012 through 2019 Table 36: World 15-Year Perspective for Other Navigation Technologies by Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa for Years 2012, 2020 & 2027 Table 37: World Current & Future Analysis for Transportation by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2020 through 2027 Table 38: World Historic Review for Transportation by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2012 through 2019 Table 39: World 15-Year Perspective for Transportation by Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa for Years 2012, 2020 & 2027 Table 40: World Current & Future Analysis for Distribution by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - 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Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa for Years 2012, 2020 & 2027 Table 46: World Current & Future Analysis for Other Applications by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2020 through 2027 Table 47: World Historic Review for Other Applications by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2012 through 2019 Table 48: World 15-Year Perspective for Other Applications by Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa for Years 2012, 2020 & 2027 Table 49: World Current & Future Analysis for Automotive by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - 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Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa for Years 2012, 2020 & 2027 Table 55: World Current & Future Analysis for Logistics by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2020 through 2027 Table 56: World Historic Review for Logistics by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2012 through 2019 Table 57: World 15-Year Perspective for Logistics by Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa for Years 2012, 2020 & 2027 Table 58: World Current & Future Analysis for Retail by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2020 through 2027 Table 59: World Historic Review for Retail by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2012 through 2019 Table 60: World 15-Year Perspective for Retail by Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa for Years 2012, 2020 & 2027 Table 61: World Current & Future Analysis for Other Industries by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2020 through 2027 Table 62: World Historic Review for Other Industries by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2012 through 2019 Table 63: World 15-Year Perspective for Other Industries by Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa for Years 2012, 2020 & 2027 III. MARKET ANALYSIS GEOGRAPHIC MARKET ANALYSIS UNITED STATES Automated Guided Vehicle Manufacturing Market in the US: An Overview Competitive Landscape Market Analytics Table 64: USA Current & Future Analysis for Automated Guided Vehicle by Type - Forklift Truck, Tow Vehicle, Pallet Truck and Other Types - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2027 Table 65: USA Historic Review for Automated Guided Vehicle by Type - Forklift Truck, Tow Vehicle, Pallet Truck and Other Types Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2012 through 2019 Table 66: USA 15-Year Perspective for Automated Guided Vehicle by Type - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Forklift Truck, Tow Vehicle, Pallet Truck and Other Types for the Years 2012, 2020 & 2027 Table 67: USA Current & Future Analysis for Automated Guided Vehicle by Battery Type - Lead, Nickel, Lithium Ion and Other Battery Types - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2027 Table 68: USA Historic Review for Automated Guided Vehicle by Battery Type - Lead, Nickel, Lithium Ion and Other Battery Types Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2012 through 2019 Table 69: USA 15-Year Perspective for Automated Guided Vehicle by Battery Type - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Lead, Nickel, Lithium Ion and Other Battery Types for the Years 2012, 2020 & 2027 Table 70: USA Current & Future Analysis for Automated Guided Vehicle by Navigation Technology - Laser Guidance, Vision Guidance and Other Navigation Technologies - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2027 Table 71: USA Historic Review for Automated Guided Vehicle by Navigation Technology - Laser Guidance, Vision Guidance and Other Navigation Technologies Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2012 through 2019 Table 72: USA 15-Year Perspective for Automated Guided Vehicle by Navigation Technology - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Laser Guidance, Vision Guidance and Other Navigation Technologies for the Years 2012, 2020 & 2027 Table 73: USA Current & Future Analysis for Automated Guided Vehicle by Application - Transportation, Distribution, Storage and Other Applications - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2027 Table 74: USA Historic Review for Automated Guided Vehicle by Application - Transportation, Distribution, Storage and Other Applications Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2012 through 2019 Table 75: USA 15-Year Perspective for Automated Guided Vehicle by Application - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Transportation, Distribution, Storage and Other Applications for the Years 2012, 2020 & 2027 Table 76: USA Current & Future Analysis for Automated Guided Vehicle by Industry - Automotive, Food & Beverages, Logistics, Retail and Other Industries - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2027 Table 77: USA Historic Review for Automated Guided Vehicle by Industry - Automotive, Food & Beverages, Logistics, Retail and Other Industries Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2012 through 2019 Table 78: USA 15-Year Perspective for Automated Guided Vehicle by Industry - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Automotive, Food & Beverages, Logistics, Retail and Other Industries for the Years 2012, 2020 & 2027 CANADA Table 79: Canada Current & Future Analysis for Automated Guided Vehicle by Type - Forklift Truck, Tow Vehicle, Pallet Truck and Other Types - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2027 Table 80: Canada Historic Review for Automated Guided Vehicle by Type - Forklift Truck, Tow Vehicle, Pallet Truck and Other Types Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2012 through 2019 Table 81: Canada 15-Year Perspective for Automated Guided Vehicle by Type - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Forklift Truck, Tow Vehicle, Pallet Truck and Other Types for the Years 2012, 2020 & 2027 Table 82: Canada Current & Future Analysis for Automated Guided Vehicle by Battery Type - Lead, Nickel, Lithium Ion and Other Battery Types - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2027 Table 83: Canada Historic Review for Automated Guided Vehicle by Battery Type - Lead, Nickel, Lithium Ion and Other Battery Types Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2012 through 2019 Table 84: Canada 15-Year Perspective for Automated Guided Vehicle by Battery Type - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Lead, Nickel, Lithium Ion and Other Battery Types for the Years 2012, 2020 & 2027 Table 85: Canada Current & Future Analysis for Automated Guided Vehicle by Navigation Technology - Laser Guidance, Vision Guidance and Other Navigation Technologies - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2027 Table 86: Canada Historic Review for Automated Guided Vehicle by Navigation Technology - Laser Guidance, Vision Guidance and Other Navigation Technologies Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2012 through 2019 Table 87: Canada 15-Year Perspective for Automated Guided Vehicle by Navigation Technology - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Laser Guidance, Vision Guidance and Other Navigation Technologies for the Years 2012, 2020 & 2027 Table 88: Canada Current & Future Analysis for Automated Guided Vehicle by Application - Transportation, Distribution, Storage and Other Applications - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2027 Table 89: Canada Historic Review for Automated Guided Vehicle by Application - Transportation, Distribution, Storage and Other Applications Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2012 through 2019 Table 90: Canada 15-Year Perspective for Automated Guided Vehicle by Application - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Transportation, Distribution, Storage and Other Applications for the Years 2012, 2020 & 2027 Table 91: Canada Current & Future Analysis for Automated Guided Vehicle by Industry - Automotive, Food & Beverages, Logistics, Retail and Other Industries - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2027 Table 92: Canada Historic Review for Automated Guided Vehicle by Industry - Automotive, Food & Beverages, Logistics, Retail and Other Industries Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2012 through 2019 Table 93: Canada 15-Year Perspective for Automated Guided Vehicle by Industry - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Automotive, Food & Beverages, Logistics, Retail and Other Industries for the Years 2012, 2020 & 2027 JAPAN Japan: A Growing Market for AGVs Market Analytics Table 94: Japan Current & Future Analysis for Automated Guided Vehicle by Type - Forklift Truck, Tow Vehicle, Pallet Truck and Other Types - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2027 Table 95: Japan Historic Review for Automated Guided Vehicle by Type - Forklift Truck, Tow Vehicle, Pallet Truck and Other Types Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2012 through 2019 Table 96: Japan 15-Year Perspective for Automated Guided Vehicle by Type - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Forklift Truck, Tow Vehicle, Pallet Truck and Other Types for the Years 2012, 2020 & 2027 Table 97: Japan Current & Future Analysis for Automated Guided Vehicle by Battery Type - Lead, Nickel, Lithium Ion and Other Battery Types - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2027 Table 98: Japan Historic Review for Automated Guided Vehicle by Battery Type - Lead, Nickel, Lithium Ion and Other Battery Types Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2012 through 2019 Table 99: Japan 15-Year Perspective for Automated Guided Vehicle by Battery Type - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Lead, Nickel, Lithium Ion and Other Battery Types for the Years 2012, 2020 & 2027 Table 100: Japan Current & Future Analysis for Automated Guided Vehicle by Navigation Technology - Laser Guidance, Vision Guidance and Other Navigation Technologies - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2027 Table 101: Japan Historic Review for Automated Guided Vehicle by Navigation Technology - Laser Guidance, Vision Guidance and Other Navigation Technologies Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2012 through 2019 Table 102: Japan 15-Year Perspective for Automated Guided Vehicle by Navigation Technology - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Laser Guidance, Vision Guidance and Other Navigation Technologies for the Years 2012, 2020 & 2027 Table 103: Japan Current & Future Analysis for Automated Guided Vehicle by Application - 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This week, representatives of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance the U.S., UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand along with the intelligence services of Japan and India issued a joint call for the tech world to provide lawful access into commercial encryption.

In a statement that was posted on the website of the United States Department of Justice, the intelligence services noted that an understanding that encryption continues to play a crucial role in protecting personal data, privacy, intellectual property, trade secrets, and cyber security. Encryption was also understood to provide a vital purpose in repressive states to protect journalists, human rights defenders, and other vulnerable individuals.

However, the intelligence services also noted, Particular implementations of encryption technology, however, pose significant challenges to public safety, including to highly vulnerable members of our societies like sexually exploited children.

The services urged industry to address the joint concerns where encryption is applied in a way that wholly precludes any legal access to content. Additionally, the statement called on technology companies to work with governments to take the necessary steps, which are focused on reasonable, technically feasible solutions to provide that lawful access.

This included:

*Embedding the safety of the public in system designs, thereby enabling companies to act against illegal content and activity effectively with no reduction to safety, and facilitating the investigation and prosecution of offences and safeguarding the vulnerable;

*Enabling law enforcement access to content in a readable and usable format where an authorization is lawfully issued, is necessary and proportionate, and is subject to strong safeguards and oversight; and

*Engaging in consultation with governments and other stakeholders to facilitate legal access in a way that is substantive and genuinely influences design decisions.

This is not the first time the Five Eyes alliance have called upon the tech giants to address the issue of end-to-end encryption (E2EE) into their respective products. Similar calls were made in 2018 and 2019, as the intelligence services have argued that way that E2EE could be supported on many major tech platforms essentially prohibits law enforcement from investigating crime rings and other illicit activities.

The issue is whether enabling access to law enforcement could in turn create potential back doors that could be used by cyber criminals or even foreign actors.

Its impossible to create an encryption backdoor that only law enforcement can take advantage of, warned Paul Bischoff, privacy advocate with Comparitech, via an email to ClearanceJobs.

If backdoors are in place, criminals will move on to other end-to-end encrypted messaging apps, while legitimate users suffer security and privacy violations, Bischoff added. If our analysis of U.S. wiretapping orders is any indication, only a fraction of law enforcement requests to decrypt data will actually be incriminating or lead to convictions. Theres little consideration for innocent parties whose communications are intercepted by law enforcement, and 99% of interception requests are granted by courts.

An argument could be made that the intelligence community and even the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) would be interest in relaxed standards to make it easier for investigators to do their jobs. Of course if the digital thugs were to find it easier to access information that too would be the DoJs problem.

The only down side for DoJ would be if they must abide the same standards, and we dont hear anyone in the government begging for less security in DoJ systems, do we, explained Jim Purtilo, associate professor of computer science at the University of Maryland.

What the feds call for are more ways to access protected information, and this means criminals get more bites at the apple too, Purtilo told ClearancesJobs. The algorithms will be more complex, but not in a good way. Normally computational complexity makes it tough for an unauthorized agent to reverse encryption; more complexity means more protection. However, once we architect multiple ways to access information, the programs complexity will go up there is more a programmer must get right yet the computational complexity that protects goes down.

An alternate solution that has been suggested would be for the tech community to work to provide greater access to law enforcement or the IC. Of course that falls back on the often asked question Quis custodiet ipsos custodies or who watches the watchmen.

Giving keys to the DoJ just in case they might want your information also creates a single point of failure that would have grim consequences if breached, added Purtilo. Then everyones data are exposed. This might sound unlikely, but lets remember it was the fed (Office of Personnel Management) that a few years back exposed sensitive personal records of all people who ever applied for security clearances.

The Five Eyes Alliance, which was formed in 1946 among the five English-speaking nations as a way to share security information, has increasingly had to deal with the issue of cybersecurity in recent years. That included joining with 22 other nations to determine what constitutes fair or foul play in cyberspace. Last year, the Five Eye nations were amongst those who agreed to a broadly written agreement for all nations to follow international law even online.

An issue of cybersecurity also caused the largest riff among the alliance when the UK opted to move forward with a plan to have Chinese-based Huawei build out the nations 5G network. While the telecom company would have been blocked from the core parts of the system, the fact that it was involved at all caused a serious divide within the Five Eyes. However, in July Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that the UK would follow its IC partners and ban Huawei from its 5G network and all components and equipment deployed and/or made by the Chinese firm would be removed from the UK by 2027.

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U.S. policy-makers and several close foreign allies issued a statement this weekend calling for technology providers to provide access for governments and law enforcement to encrypted data and protected systems. But based on the failure of numerous similar U.S. government entreaties to the tech sector in recent years, the latest effort likely wont end up moving the needle on the issue.

In an October 11 release signed off on by the Department of Justice, and government officials from the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, the governments called on tech providers to embed the safety of the public in system designs in ways that will facilitate government and law enforcement prosecution of criminals, including access to unencrypted content and locked devices.

The five nations signing the agreement are known as the Five Eyes alliance that have signed a treaty for joint cooperation on signals intelligence.

For the past several years and going back to at least 2015 in the case of a Federal suit against Apple seeking to crack open a locked device used by a perpetrator of a mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif. tech providers have presented a united front opposing what some have said is the governments request to build back doors into their systems for the benefit of law enforcement. Creating such avenues, they argue, will only make systems less secure.

Citing terrorism and criminal threats including from online child sexual predators the governments said in their Oct. 11 statement that there is increasing consensus across governments and international institutions that action must be taken.

While encryption is vital and privacy and cyber security must be protected, that should not come at the expense of wholly precluding law enforcement, and the tech industry itself, from being able to act against the most serious illegal content and activity online, the governments said.

We are committed to working with industry to develop reasonable proposals that will allow technology companies and governments to protect the public and their privacy, defend cyber security and human rights and support technological innovation, the governments said. While this statement focuses on the challenges posed by end-to-end encryption, that commitment applies across the range of encrypted services available, including device encryption, custom encrypted applications and encryption across integrated platforms.

We reiterate that data protection, respect for privacy and the importance of encryption, as technology changes and global Internet standards are developed, remain at the forefront of each states legal framework, they said. However, we challenge the assertion that public safety cannot be protected without compromising privacy or cyber security. We strongly believe that approaches protecting each of these important values are possible and strive to work with industry to collaborate on mutually agreeable solutions.

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Feds, 'Five Eyes' Allies Take Another Swing at Encryption Policy Changes - MeriTalk

The US Department of Justice (DOJ), together with government representatives from six other countries, has recently re-ignited the perennial Battle to Break Encryption.

Last weekend, the DOJ put out a press release co-signed by the governments of the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India and Japan, entitled International Statement: End-To-End Encryption and Public Safety.

You might not have seen the press release (it was put out on Sunday, an unusual day for news releases in the West), but you can almost certainly guess what it says.

Two things, mainly: think of the children, and something needs to be done.

If youre a regular reader of Naked Security, youll be familiar with the long-running tension that exists in many countries over the use of encryption.

Very often, one part of the public service the data protection regulator, for instance will be tasked with encouraging companies to adopt strong encryption in order to protect their customers, guard our privacy, and make life harder for cybercriminals.

Indeed, without strong encryption, technologies that we have come to rely upon, such as e-commerce and teleconferencing, would be unsafe and unusable.

Criminals would be trivially able to hijack financial transactions, for example, and hostile countries would be able to eavesdrop on our business and run off with our trade secrets at will.

Even worse, without a cryptographic property known as forward secrecy, determined adversaries can intercept your communications today, even if they arent crackable now, and realistically hope to crack them in the future.

Without forward secrecy, a later compromise of your master encryption key might grant the attackers instant retrospective access to their stash of scrambled documents, allowing them to rewind the clock and decrypt old communications at will.

So, modern encryption schemes dont just encrypt network traffic with your long-term encryption keys, but add in what are known as ephemeral keys into the mix one-time encryption secrets for each communication session that are discarded after use.

The theory is that if you didnt decrypt the communication at the time it was sent, you wont be able to go back and do so later on.

Unfortunately, forward secrecy still isnt as widely supported by websites, or as widely enforced, as you might expect. Many servers still accept connections that reuse long-term encryption keys, presumably because a significant minority of their visitors are using old browsers that dont support forward secrecy, or dont ask to use it.

Similarly, we increasingly rely upon what is known as end-to-end encryption, where data is encrypted for the sole use of its final recipient and is only ever passed along its journey in a fully scrambled and tamper-proof form.

Even if the message is created by a proprietary app that sends it through a specific providers cloud service, the company that operates the service doesnt get the decryption key for the message.

That means that the service provider cant decrypt the message as it passes through their servers, or if it is stored there for later not for their own reasons; not if theyre told to; and not even if you yourself beg them to recover it for you because youve lost the original copy.

Without end-to-end encryption, a determined adversary could eavesdrop on your messages by doing the digital equivalent of steaming them open along the way, copying the contents, and then resealing them in an identical-looking envelope before passing them along the line.

Theyd still be encrypted when they got to you, but you wouldnt be sure whether theyd been decrypted and re-encrypted along the way.

At the same time, another part of the government will be arguing that strong encryption plays into the hands of terrorists and criminals especially child abusers because, well, because strong encryption is too strong, and gets in the way even of reasonable, lawful, court-approved surveillance and evidence collection.

As a result, justice departments, law enforcement agencies and politicians often come out swinging, demanding that we switch to encryption systems that are weak enough that they can crack into the communications and the stored data of cybercriminals if they really need to.

After all, if crooks and terrorists can communicate and exchange data in a way that is essentially uncrackable, say law enforcers, how will we ever be able to get enough evidence to investigate criminals and convict them after something bad has taken place?

Even worse, we wont be able to collect enough proactive evidence intelligence, in the jargon to stop criminals while they are still at the conspiracy stage, and therefore crimes will become easier and easier to plan, and harder and harder to prevent.

These are, of course, reasonable concerns, and cant simply be dismissed out of hand.

As the DOJ press release puts it:

[T]here is increasing consensus across governments and international institutions that action must be taken: while encryption is vital and privacy and cyber security must be protected, that should not come at the expense of wholly precluding law enforcement, and the tech industry itself, from being able to act against the most serious illegal content and activity online.

After all, in countries such as the UK and the US, the criminal justice system is largely based on an adversarial process that starts with the presumption of a defendants innocence, and convictions depend not merely on evidence that is credible and highly likely to be correct, but on being sure beyond reasonable doubt.

But how can you come up with the required level of proof if criminals can routinely and easily hide the evidence in plain sight, and laugh in the face of court warrants that allow that evidence to be seized and searched?

How can you ever establish that X said Y to Z, or that A planned to meet B at C, if every popular messaging system implements end-to-end encryption, so that service providers simply cannot intercept or decode any messages, even if a court warrant issued in a scrupulously fair way demands them to do so?

Impasse.

We cant weaken our current encryption systems if we want to stay ahead of cybercriminals and nation-state enemies; in fact, we need to keep strengthening and improving the encryption we have, because (as cryptographers like to say), attacks only ever get better.

But were also told that we need to weaken our encryption systems if we want to be able to detect and prevent the criminals and nation-state enemies in our midst.

The dilemma here should be obvious: if we weaken our encryption systems on purpose to make it easier and easier to catch someone, we simultaneously make it easier and easier for anyone to prey successfully on everyone.

O, what a tangled web we weave!

Theres an additional issue here caused by the fact that uncrackable end-to-end encryption is now freely available to anyone who cares to use it for example, in the form of globally available open source software. Therefore, compelling law-abiding citizens to use weakened encryption would make things even better for the crooks, who are not law-abiding citizens in the first place and are unlikely to comply with any weak crypto laws anyway.

Governments typically propose a range of systems to solve the strong encryption problem, such as:

The problem with all these solutions is that they can all be considered variations on the master key theme.

Endpoint interception only when its needed is just a specialised, once-in-a-while case of general message escrow; message escrow is just a specialised case of a master key; and a deliberate cryptographic flaw is just a complicated sort of master key wrapped up in the algorithm itself.

They all open up a glaring threat, namely, What happens when the Bad Guys uncover the secrets behind the message cracking system?

Simply put: how on earth do you keep the master key safe, and how do you decide who gets to use it anyway?

The DOJ seems to think that it can find a Holy Grail for lawful interception, or at least expects the private sector to come up with one:

We challenge the assertion that public safety cannot be protected without compromising privacy or cyber security. We strongly believe that approaches protecting each of these important values are possible and strive to work with industry to collaborate on mutually agreeable solutions.

Wed love to think that this is possible, but in case you were wondering were sticking to what we call our #nobackdoors principles:

[At Sophos,] our ethos and development practices prohibit backdoors or any other means of compromising the strength of any of our products network, endpoint or cloud security for any purpose, and we vigorously oppose any law that would compel Sophos (or any other technology supplier) to intentionally weaken the security of its products.

Where you do stand in this perennial debate?

Have your say in the comments below. (If you omit your name, you will default to being Anonymous.)

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Zoom next week will begin rolling out its end-to-end encryption offering as a technical preview for 30 days as the company seeks feedback form its users, the company announced during its two-day virtual Zoomtopia event.

The enhanced encryption for both free and paid users comes after Zoom in May announced plans to build an end-to-end encryption (E2EE) model into the popular videoconferencing platform to increase meeting security. In a press release, the company says this initial roll out is the first of four phases in releasing the E2EE model.

Zoom earlier this year took 90 days to address security concerns with the platform after reports of meeting hijackers easily joining calls as usage skyrocketed in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdown. The company added on new security features like better meeting controls, stronger password protections, and enhanced encryption.

According to the company, its E2EE uses the same GCM encryption currently offered to Zoom users, but where those encryptions live has changed. Zooms cloud typically generates encryption keys and distributes them to meeting participants using Zoom apps as they join. With this new offering, the meetings host generates encryption keys and uses public key cryptography to distribute keys to the other meeting participants.

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That turns Zooms servers into oblivious relays that never see the encryption keys required to decrypt meeting content, according to the company.

All participants must have the setting enabled to join a call that is end-to-end encrypted. Hosts can enable the setting at the account, group and user level, and can be locked at the account or group level, according to the company.

In the first phase, all participants must join from the Zoom desktop client, mobile app or Zoom Rooms.

End-to-end encryption is another stride toward making Zoom the most secure communications platform in the world, said Zoom CEO Eric S. Yuan in a statement. This phase of our E2EE offering provides the same security as existing end-to-end-encrypted messaging platforms, but with the video quality and scale that has made Zoom the communications solution of choice for hundreds of millions of people and the worlds largest enterprises.

At least in this version, enabling E2EE will disable some features, like joining before the host, cloud recording, streaming, live transcription, breakout rooms, polling, 1:1 private chat and meeting reactions.

The company is planning to roll out better identity management and E2EE SSO integration as part of the second phase, which is tentatively scheduled for 2021.

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LONDON Lawmakers from countries within the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance have warned tech firms that unbreakable encryption technology "creates severe risks to public safety."

Ministers from the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand published a statement Sunday calling on the tech industry to develop a solution that enabled law enforcement to access tightly encrypted messages.

"We urge industry to address our serious concerns where encryption is applied in a way that wholly precludes any legal access to content," the statement, which was signed by U.S. Attorney General William Barr and U.K. Home Secretary Priti Patel, said.

The statement, published on the website of the U.S. Department of Justice, was also signed by India and Japan, which are not part of the Five Eyes alliance.

Technology companies like Apple and Facebook encrypt user's communications "end-to-end," meaning that only users can access their own messages. It applies to written messages, as well as audio and video communications.

While citizens benefit from additional privacy, law enforcement agencies see end-to-end encryption as a barrier to their investigations and have been calling on tech companies to introduce backdoors that would give law enforcement agencies access.

"We call on technology companies to work with governments on reasonable, technically feasible solutions," the governments said.

They added that end-to-end encryption poses a "significant challenges to public safety, including to highly vulnerable members of our societies like sexually exploited children."

Although the nations did concede that some forms of encryption "play a crucial role in protecting personal data, privacy, intellectual property, trade secrets and cyber security."

Ultimately, they said they wanted to develop a solution with the tech firms that enabled users to continue communicating privately and securely, but also allow law enforcement and tech firms to monitor criminal activity.

Last year, a group of companies including Apple, Microsoft and WhatsApp opposed a proposal by British spy agency GCHQ that would enable spooks to access people's encrypted messages.

Under the proposal, GCHQ suggested adding "ghost" recipients to suspicious message threads that the sender and the receiver would be oblivious to.

In an open letter published last May, tech firms and privacy groups said such a feature would "threaten fundamental human rights."

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U.S., UK and other countries warn tech firms that encryption creates 'severe risks' to public safety - CNBC

You might know that Signal is a popular messaging app that bills itself as being very secure, offering end-to-end encryption for a very high level of privacy.

It's not necessarily obvious, though, what all that means, and how Signal's technology affords any more protection than other messaging apps.

Signal offers end-to-end encryption, which essentially means that your messages are scrambled into an unintelligible collection of characters before leaving your device and are not decrypted back into meaningful content until reaching the Signal app on the recipient's device.

The Signal app boasts more privacy than its competitors. Signal

These encrypted messages can only be unlocked using a key that is shared between the two private conversations. No one else has access to the key or can decrypt the message not even the developers of the Signal app.

Because there is no "back door" to decrypting Signal messages, Signal can't decrypt messages for the government, for example, even under subpoena not because of policy, but because it's not technically possible.

Signal's encryption algorithm isn't proprietary or even unique. The encryption software used by Signal is open-source (and used by other messaging apps, including WhatsApp) and available for download on GitHub. This actually allows Signal to be more secure, because the open-source software is subject to public scrutiny by developers and security experts. It exposes bugs, flaws, and vulnerabilities sooner than if the software were closed and proprietary.

While the encryption software in Signal might not be unique, the app still has privacy advantages over other messaging apps. Signal records no data about its users or the conversations taking place within the app.

This is in contrast to other apps, like Apple iMessage and WhatsApp, to name two examples, which often store significant amounts of metadata, such as who you spoke to and detailed time logs of when those conversations occurred.

In a recent blog post, Signal creator Matthew Rosenfeld (known online as Moxie Marlinspike) explains that the Federal government used a subpoena in 2016 to access Signal's user data.

But as Rosenfeld writes, "there wasn't (and still isn't) really anything to obtain. The only Signal user data we have, and the only data the US government obtained as a result, was the date of account creation and the date of last use not user messages, groups, contacts, profile information, or anything else."

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