![]() ![]() Smaller companies, both domestic and foreign, are Both domestic and foreign encryption products regularly use strong publishedĮncryption algorithms such as AES. ![]() There is no difference in advertised strength of encryption products produced in or outside The marketing material for the foreign-made encryption products. The potential of an NSA-installed backdoor in US encryption products is rarely mentioned in Illustrating how much this market has changed in 17 years. Very few of the products from the 1999 survey appear in the current one, Numbers are really lower bounds more than anything else, as neither survey claimed to beĬomprehensive. The 546 foreign encryption products compare with 805 from the 1999 survey. Of the 546 foreign encryption products, we found 47 file encryption products, 68 e-mailĮncryption products, 104 message encryption products, 35 voice encryption products, andįound 61 virtual private networking products. Of those, 374, or about two-thirds, are outside the US. We identified 587 entities-primarily companies-that either sell or give away encryption 66% are proprietary, and 34% are open source. Of the 546 foreign encryption products we found, 56% are available for sale and 44% areįree. Thailand each produce at least one encryption product. ![]() Virgin Islands, Chile, Cyprus, Estonia, Iraq, Malaysia, St. But smaller countries like Algeria, Argentina, Belize, the British The five most common countries for encryption products-including the US-account for This is followed by the United Kingdom, Canada, France, and Sweden, in that order. The most common non-US country for encryption products is Germany, with 112 products. Table 1 summarizes the number of products from each country. This includes 546 encryption products from outside the US, representing We have identified 865 hardware or software products incorporating encryption from 55ĭifferent countries. We collected information on as many encryption products as we could find anywhere in the Seventeen years later, we have tried to replicate this survey. Showed that restricting the export of encryption products did nothing to reduce their availabilityĪround the world, while at the same time putting US companies at a competitive disadvantage in Hardware and software encryption products from 35 countries outside the US, the researchers Ongoing debate about US encryption export controls. Worldwide market for encryption products. In 1999, a group of researchers from George Washington University attempted to survey the They are available, either for sale or free Most of these products are developed and sold by for-profit entities,Īlthough some are created as free open-source projects. A Worldwide Survey of Encryption Productsĭata security is a worldwide problem, and there is a wide world of encryption solutions available ![]()
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