Global encryption provider used for decades by hundreds of governments was owned by the CIA, according to a new investigation.
investigation puts the meat back onto the bone with the most detailed CIA history of events to date using leaked"secret" documents.
That history suggests that the company was secretly purchased by the CIA and BND in 1970, with the BND selling its share to the U.S. sometime in the early 1990s. The Washington Post investigation concludes that the CIA might have been able to exploit Crypt AG backdoors until as recently as 2018 when the company was eventually sold to private buyers.
In the meantime, more than 100 governments around the world, possibly as many as 120, purchased and employed the backdoored equipment. China and the Soviet Union, as it was then, weren't amongst the buyers. However, Egypt was, and this apparently enabled the U.S. to monitor communications between Anwar Sadat and Cairo during the Egypt-Israel peace accord meeting at Camp David in 1978. So was Iran, and this was exploited by the U.S. during the 1979 hostage crisis, for example. The U.K.
Ian Thornton-Trump, CISO at Cyjax and a former member of the Canadian Forces Military Intelligence Branch, says that the revelation is"completely in line with the American intelligence community desire for encryption backdoors dating back to World War Two.
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