Encryption

Harvard: US Can’t Ban Encryption

US can’t be successful in banning encryption as it is a global phenomenon, according to Harvard study.

Despite over two years’ efforts by the CIA and FBI to introduce government backdoors into commercial products that employ encryption, with far-flung support from across the political spectrum, a new study from Harvard should dampen the mood a bit. The study argues that encryption is a global technological phenomenon that the US cannot regulate on its own.

“A Worldwide Survey of Encryption Products” aims to examine and catalogue all currently available encryption products. Nearly 550 products were identified from developers outside of the United States, some two thirds of the 865 products available.

The inescapable conclusion is that the majority of cryptography is done outside the US. Any law that would mandate breaking cryptography in the US would just make the developers migrate to a friendlier country...

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