A covered entity includes "any person who provides ... a method to facilitate a communication or the processing or storage of data." FOSS encryption libraries could be considered a method of processing data.
If signed into law, this could compel maintainers to design libraries with gov't decryption in mind.
I don't know, but the bill doesn't appear to cover end users. Cloud-based services would probably have to deal with it, but not people running software on their own computers.
Agreed. Those familiar with encryption understand that a single security incident resulting in the theft of such a backdoor key is all it would take. The attack would cascade to any company that implemented the library.
If signed into law, this could compel maintainers to design libraries with gov't decryption in mind.