Australia's push to enact laws that would allow its law-enforcement agencies to compel companies help them break their own encryption represent an existential threat to the internet's security and integrity, the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) has warned.

In a rare submission [PDF] to a legislation-forming process, IAB chair Ted Hardie states a method to compel an infrastructure provider to break encryption or provide false trust arrangements will introduce a systemic weakness that threatens to erode trust in the internet itself.

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