Governments HATE encryption because it gives us peasants a means of communication to which they can’t ‘listen’.
What sucks for them is they can’t stop it. Say they get a back door into everything right this very minute, tomorrow some brilliant 20 year old will come up with something new they can’t penetrate.
Sucks to be them.....
Governments not only hate strong encryption, they hate weak encryption.
They have no reasonable argument against the use of weak encryption that has been proven to be breakable. Their problem is that even if everything is encrypted with an algorithm that they can break...what if the decryption takes so long that they can’t decrypt on a mass scale...oh the horror!
By too long I mean it takes them more than a few minutes to decrypt....there is no way to monitor all internet traffic if each group of packets takes a few minutes to look at.
Plus there is the likely possibility that people with a great need for security will simply double encrypt their traffic.
Most encrypted data is safe and the NSA cannot crack it. What they are concentrating on is putting back-doors into the firmware that controls computer hardware.
At the present time the best way to pass secure messages is by using an external encryption device. The device should be simple in design and powered by a cheap, low-end processor...it is unlikely that the NSA has corrupted the innards of microcontroller processors that cost less than a dollar. These types of processors can be easily decapped and scrutinized by gifted amateurs and so any tampering would become apparent. This is the only sure way to pass secure data over an untrusted network! It would matter not if every computer along the path which the data would pass was corrupt as long as a simple external encryption device is used at each end of the circuit...you could pass the data through the NSA’s own computer network and it would still be safe.
Cost to build such a device...less than $20
You could also use it to make an encrypted image of a hard drive and create disk images of a PC via USB.... there is no magic that can reach out through a USB port and corrupt a simple external device designed specifically for security.
The simplicity of such a device is its greatest asset...with great complexity comes the possibility of mischief.
Bing. Encryption with a back door is a fraud... Much like Obama.