“There’s no other way in which this can function than that this is an intentional backdoor,” Jos Wetzels, one of the researchers from cybersecurity firm Midnight Blue, told Motherboard in a phone call.
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If Wetzels is correct, this fact should make the marketing manufacturer guilty of fraud.
>>the organization responsible for maintaining the standard pushes back against that specific term, and says the standard was designed for export controls which determine the strength of encryption.
This I believe. It used to be illegal to travel wearing a t-shirt with the RSA algorithm printed on it, since the source code was classified as a munition.