MOSCOW (Sputnik) — US agencies, including the Department of Justice and the National Security Agency, attempted to persuade companies to implement so-called "back-doors," or encryption keys, to guarantee government access to data in criminal or national security investigations amid an increasing use of encryption by users to protect their data.
The president's working group has crafted four approaches providers could use to gain access to encrypted user data through the addition of a physical encrypted port, the splitting of encryption keys, software updates and a so-called "forced backup," according to the memo.
All four approaches would oblige developers to modify their operating systems to provide the ability to decode encrypted content, a practice that cryptography experts describe as a "backdoor," the media outlet said.
US Law enforcement officials denied describing the approaches using the "backdoor" terminology, saying that they only seek "clarity and transparency."
