>> To my knowledge, backdoors in various NSA encryption types have only been suggested and theorized about. Read about the Inslaw case from the 1970's. https:

>> To my knowledge, backdoors in various NSA encryption types have only been suggested and theorized about. Read about the Inslaw case from the 1970's. https://www.wired.com/1993/01/inslaw/ https://www.wired.com/1993/01/inslaw/ The government essentially stole software that they built back doors into and then sold to governments on both sides of the spectrum in order to track terrorists and find out what our allies governments were doing. This was started on the DOJ side, but eventually was used in several other three letter government agencies. Its not a leap to think if they've been doing this since the 1970's, they would be willing to do just about anything to continue to have access to developing encryption techniques. I think the Lavabit story is a great example of this. Like you said, there hasn't been any confirmed knowledge of this, but there is a lot of circumstantial evidence to point to the idea that if an encryption technique is developed where the government doesn't have access, that is a problem. However, they don't have any issues with all of the other standards? Makes you wonder why - right?