Worldwide Cryptographic Products Survey: Edits and Additions Wanted
Back in September, I announced my intention to survey the world market of cryptographic products. The goal is to compile a list of both free and commercial encryption products that can be used to protect arbitrary data and messages. That is, I’m not interested in products that are specifically designed for a narrow application, like financial transactions, or products that provide authentication or data integrity. I am interested in products that people like FBI director James Comey can possibly claim help criminals communicate securely.
Together with a student here at Harvard University, we’ve compiled a spreadsheet of over 400 products from many different countries.
At this point, we would like your help. Please look at the list. Please correct anything that is wrong, and add anything that is missing. Use this form to submit changes and additions. If it’s more complicated than that, please e-mail me.
As the rhetoric surrounding weakening or banning strong encryption continues, it’s important for policymakers to understand how international the cryptographic market is, and how much of it is not under their control. My hope is that this survey will contribute to the debate by making that point.
Clive Robinson • December 3, 2015 8:48 AM
Hmm,
On looking down the list I see no contact details for “Mujahideen Secrets”…
Some congress critter is bound to pick up on this, you know what some of them can be like…
More pertaintly, do the non-general contact details need to be in the public facing spread sheet?