[...] After two days of meetings at Europol’s headquarters in the Hague, Wainwright and Helmbrecht said this afternoon (20 May) that they’d found common ground on when police can intercept encrypted communication. Despite Wainwright’s previous protests about encryption, he and Helmbrecht agreed that built-in backdoors to encryption don’t provide a secure fix to police frustrations. “While this would give investigators lawful access in the event of serious crimes or terrorist threats, it would also increase the attack surface for malicious abuse, which, consequently, would have much wider implications for society,” the directors wrote in a statement. The two agency chiefs’ statement echoes Helmbrecht’s plea for preserving strong encryption. “Intercepting an encrypted communication or breaking into a digital service might be considered as proportional with respect to an individual suspect, but breaking the cryptographic mechanisms might cause collateral damage,” their statement reads. Helmbrecht told EurActiv in March that weakening encryption could be catastrophic for cybersecurity and make any system that relies on encryption—like banking software—more vulnerable. While Helmbrecht and Wainwright say they oppose mandatory backdoors in encryption, they do want policies that give police more leeway to crack encryption legally. The directors write that if encrypted information is needed for security reasons, “feasible solutions to decryption without weakening the protective mechanisms must be offered, both in legislation and through continuous technical evolution”. <http://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/eu-cybersecurity-and-police-chi...> In che modo quello che non è possibile tecnicamente dovrebbe diventarlo legalmente? Qualcuno ha notizie più precise sull'accordo ENISA-Europol e sulle "feasible solutions"? ciao, Alberto