Non-US encryption is 'theoretical,' claims CIA chief in backdoor debate
Found on The Register on Friday, 17 June 2016
According to Brennan, there's no one else for people to turn to: if they don't want to use US-based technology because it's been forced to use weakened cryptography, they'll be out of luck because non-American solutions are simply "theoretical."
If US firms are mandated to install backdoors, sales of encryption products are going to change very quickly. Very few overseas companies are going to buy a broken encryption system that can be read by US intelligence, and a fair few US companies aren't going to be wild about doing so either.
The CIA chef surely cannot the that stupid, can he? Let's see who is behind some of the well-known cryptography standards. AES was developed by two Belgians, Serpent by developers from Britain, Israel and Denmark, Whirlpool by two people from Belgium and Brazil.