Security News > 2016 > February > Government-mandated crypto backdoors are pointless, says report (Help Net Security)

If you needed another confirmation that government-mandated backdoors in US encryption products would only serve to damage US companies’ competitiveness without actually bringing much benefit to the country’s security, you only need to look at a recent report by security researchers Bruce Schneier, Kathleen Seidel, and Saranya Vijayakumar. The report shows the results of a worldwide survey of encryption solutions – file, email, message, voice encryption products, and VPN solutions – and they are as … More → The post Government-mandated crypto backdoors are pointless, says report appeared first on Help Net Security.

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