Review the excerpt from The Code Book. In this paragraph, the author uses a real-life example to
demonstrate how cryptography
In 1998, a report by Wayne Madsen revealed that the
Swiss cryptographic company Crypto AG had built
backdoors into some of its products, and had provided
the U. S. Government with details of how to exploit these
backdoors. As a result, America was able to read the
communications of several countries. In 1991 the
assassins who killed Shahpour Bakhtiar, the exiled
former Iranian prime minister, were caught thanks to the
interception and backdoor decipherment of Iranian
messages encrypted using Crypto AG equipment.
O can help the government.
O can be dangerous.
O is a Swiss specialty.
O is unreasonably expensive.