Mathematician

To implement this legislation will require mandating man in the middle attacks on all backbone infrastructure in Canada. Effectively the public key exchange handshakes will be spoofed with surveillance keys. As long as this is done at the trunk level even certificate authorities and signing authenticators can be spoofed. In the short term this will break a lot of server maintainence the occurs through SSH, because the server certificates and public keys will be invalidated. The only servers that will be unaffected will be ones where the public key exchange was done a priori, and are configured to do encrypted initial handshakes with know hosts. In the mid-term this will result in an arms race between the open source encryption community and the surveillane community. In the long term this will result in the development of secondary physical channels of communication. This legislation, because it requires evesdroppping on all channels would give the goverment access to everything: our health records, our banking records, cloud applications, industrial and technical records, you name it. The legislation would give them to power to intercept every piece of secured traffic, with or without backdoors. God help us if any other nation or group figures out how to hack into these surveillance systems. - Aaron Sheldon