Whitfield Diffie invented public key cryptography. Phil Zimmermann created PGP. Ron Rivest is the „R“ in „RSA.“ Peter Neumann has been working on these issues for decades before I was even born. And many more on the list are just as impressive.

So how do you think FBI director James Comey — who has been leading the charge on backdooring encryption — responded to these experts?

By calling them uninformed.