A study of encryption platforms worldwide earlier this year concurred. “The smart criminals that any mandatory backdoors are supposed to catch – terrorists, organized crime and so on – will easily be able to evade those backdoors,” according to “A Worldwide Survey of Encryption Products” written by Bruce Schneier of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, independent security researcher Kathleen Seidel, and Saranya Vijayakumar, a Harvard student.

Source: Euro agencies on encryption backdoors: Create ‘decryption without weakening’ | Network World