Upcoming Encryption

[wogggieee]

Unfortunately it is going to eventually be the whole state for law enforcement. The latest BCA document governing local agency communications ( https://dps.mn.gov/divisions/bca/bc...s/MNJIS-5002-CJDN-Network-Security-Policy.pdf ) is pretty clear that radio traffic likely need to be encrypted (section 2.8 on page 10 of document) - if one says a subject has prior offenses or has warrants, they just communicated CJI, so it would be subject to current security standards, and no agency wants to fail a CJIS audit because of something accidentally transmitted in a clear channel.

You're likely going to have to go to the BCA and FBI and not the local agency if you want to complain about encryption.

If this is the actual reason for the encroachment of encryption you'd think they'd mention it as justification rather than their "officer safety" nonsense.

 

[tadsmith]

95+% of the agencies use DES-OFB which is 64 bit and doesn't meet the CJIS requirements of 128-bits anyway.

 

[DVINTHEHOUSEMAN]

DES was broken in 1999. No reason to still be using it for anything sensitive or mission critical.

Someone could find and leak keys with relative ease using consumer grade hardware. If they're going to play the encryption game, they shouldn't be way out in left field screwing around.

 

[egftechman]

DES was broken in 1999. No reason to still be using it for anything sensitive or mission critical.

Someone could find and leak keys with relative ease using consumer grade hardware. If they're going to play the encryption game, they shouldn't be way out in left field screwing around.

CJIS standard no longer allows DES....It specifies FIPS 140-3 compliant encryption