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While the WhatsApp news may seem timely in light of the recent high-profile battle between Apple and the FBI over an encrypted iPhone, the company has in fact been implementing encryption since 2013, the year NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden triggered a global privacy storm by revealing the extent of government mass surveillance programs.
While the WhatsApp news may seem timely in light of the recent high-profile battle between Apple and the FBI over an encrypted iPhone, the company has in fact been implementing encryption since 2013, the year NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden triggered a global privacy storm by revealing the extent of government mass surveillance programs.
But in the years that Cerf and Kahn were designing TCP/IP, implementing encryption proved daunting.
Since 1998, one way that programmers have been able to avoid implementing encryption protocols themselves has been to use an open-source library called OpenSSL.
Today, few online service providers give much thought to traffic analysis when implementing encryption to protect privacy, says Ashkan Soltani, an independent security researcher who contributed to the Washington Post's Pulitzer-winning coverage of NSA surveillance.
Twilio expects to see most of its clients implementing encryption in its IP messaging service.
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And while government-wide, more than half of laptops are encrypted, NASA has yet to implement encryption as standard practice.
The U.S. military would create its own networks using TCP/IP and eventually implement encryption to protect the security of its communications.
"That concern tends to be focused more in the security community than the actual website operators that implement encryption," he says.
I think that what is needed is more by way of standards, guidance, etc., that would make it easier for industry to implement encryption without making more trouble for itself than it saves".
In the statement, Forever 21 mentioned that it implemented encryption and tokenization solutions in 2015, and therefore believes that the breach only involved certain POS devices in stores where the encryption on those devices was not operating correctly.
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