A few weeks ago it was with great delight that I accepted a request from Privacy International to write a report for them, to share my perspectives on the technical aspects of end-to-end encryption with a specific focus upon helping civil society organisations better understand these aspects when considering policy.

We came to an agreeable arrangement where I retain copyright and am free to republish this report to the general public, which I do under the terms of the CC-BY-4.0 licence.

The report is now in a state of being complete enough for publishing … although over time it will doubtless be updated with errata, fixes, new content, etc; and a list of diffs (changes) will be available for transparency. The URL for the report is:

https://alecmuffett.com/alecm/e2e-primer/e2e-primer-web.html

https://alecmuffett.com/alecm/e2e-primer/ (for other versions)

…available in web-optimised and print-optimised HTML, Markdown, and PDF.

I hope that it may help at least amuse, if not inform.