[GallopingGhost]

"The trouble with PGP was that, as far as NSA was concerned, it was too good. NSA got the U.S. government to declare programs like PGP to be military equipment, and subject to export controls. Trying to stop the spread of PGP was absurd, however, and the government eventually backed off. But NSA’s problem with PGP encoded messages remained. Or did it? NSA, obviously, is not going to admit that it can, or cannot, crack PGP encoded messages."

Aren't we all assuming that there is no backdoor to PGP? Does anybody think that the NSA was simply going to drop their opposition to exporting this technology?

[eno_]

Aren't we all assuming that there is no backdoor to PGP?

You can assume that U.S. intelligence and/or law enforcement have tried to strongarm every provider of encrypted communication to provide a backdoor.

There are, however, open source versions of PGP.