Forty-two years after unbreakable encryption was first conceived, these tools are more widespread than ever. WhatsApp, the world’s largest messaging service, announced in 2016 that it would offer encryption where the messages could only be read by the senders and recipients: Not even the FBI or WhatsApp staff could have access to them.
Law enforcement and intelligence agencies having a hard time coming to grips with this new reality. For decades, they demanded tech companies hand over private data on their users or they slipped back-doors into technology for government snooping.
That all changed as math got more sophisticated and computer processors got faster. Now, we are living in a new era of consumer privacy and it’s all thanks to decades of battles fought by technologists in the so-called Crypto Wars.
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