Hello Mr Schneier, I believe an updated survey is needed but I think that a lot of the worlds inter-connectedness has made it so that it needs to be more nuanced to answer the questions you posit in the second part.įirst, what does it mean to be by a cryptography product? If the products are built around the world, but they all use an implementation of AES is that consolidation or seperation? Tags: crypto wars, cryptography, encryption Since right now the FBI seems intent on just pressuring the big companies like Apple and Microsoft, and not regulating cryptography in general, knowing what else is out there in the U.S. And please forward this blog post to anyone else who might help.ĮDITED TO ADD: Thinking about it more, I want to compile a list of domestic (U.S.) encryption products as well. I don’t care about encrypting financial transactions, or anything of that sort.

I am only interested in those useful for protecting communications and data storage. Please respond in the comments with the names-and URLs-of non-US encryption software and hardware products. Are there so many foreign crypto products that any regulation by only one country will be easily circumvented? Or has the industry consolidated around only a few products made by only a few countries, so that effective regulation of strong encryption is possible? What are the possibilities for encrypted communication and data storage? I honestly don’t know the answer-and I think it’s important to find out. Here, at the beginning of the Second Crypto War, we again need to understand which encryption products are outside the reach of US regulation (or UK regulation). This was an important contribution during the First Crypto War, and Hoffman testified before a Senate committee on his findings.

The point of the survey was to illustrate that there was a robust international market in these products, and that US-only export restrictions on strong encryption did nothing to prevent its adoption and everything to disadvantage US corporations. In 1999, Lance Hoffman, David Balenson, and others published a survey of non-US cryptographic products. Wanted: Cryptography Products for Worldwide Survey

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