U.S. can’t ban encryption because it’s a global phenomenon, Harvard study finds

After a two-year campaign from the FBI, U.S. intelligence officials, and powerful politicians calling for backdoor access into Americans’ encrypted data, a new Harvard study argues that encryption is a worldwide technology that the United States cannot regulate and control on its own.

The point of the research is clear: There’s a whole world of cryptography outside the United States. The migration has already begun. The researchers expect non-U.S. tech companies to take advantage of any anti-encryption policy to come out of America.

“If U.S. products are all backdoored by law, I guarantee you stuff coming out of Finland is going to make a big deal of that,” Schneier told the Daily Dot.

http://www.dailydot.com/politics/worldwide-survey-of-encryption-products/

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