[squeaky-clean]

> if encryption had a backdoor

This is the flaw in the logic. "Encryption" can't have a backdoor any more than math can have a back door.

Specific types of encryption can. But there's nothing to stop a malicious user from using a non-backdoored encryption algorithm or inventing their own.

[kmonsen]

Yeah, I don't think ransomware is going to use the US approved algorithm. What they are doing is already illegal.