Like playing a frustrating game of whack-a-mole.
Iain Thomson
In 1999, when a fierce crypto war was raging between governments and developers, researchers undertook a global survey of available encryption products.
Now security guru Bruce Schneier and other experts have repeated the exercise, and it spells bad news for those demanding backdoors in today’s cryptography.
The latest study analyzed 865 hardware and software products incorporating encryption from 55 countries, with a third of them coming from the US. That’s up from 805 in 35 countries in 1999.
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Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/
