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> The agency also said it would try to decrypt or bypass codes that keep communications secret by influencing “the global commercial encryption market through commercial relationships,” ...

> The agency plans to fight back against the rise of encryption through relationships with companies that develop encryption tools and through espionage operations.

Does that sound like "backdoor Symantec PGP WDE, Microsoft Bitlocker, etc." to anyone else?

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Certainly any encryption system which cannot at least be publicly audited should not be trusted.

Absolutely.

I don't use TrueCrypt but I was happy to contribute to the recent fundraiser to audit it. I'd also like to see audits of other (crypto-related) projects such as dm-crypt/LUKS, GnuPG, OpenSSL, GnuTLS, etc (and would happily contribute to those as well!).

> relationships with companies that develop encryption tools

That indeed sounds scary.

It's also very likely to be just a continuation of current practice.

Indeed, and that makes it even scarier.

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