"The CIA in partnership with West German intelligence was the secret owner of a Swiss company that supplied more than 120 countries from Iran to the Vatican with encryption machines.., For more than half a century, governments all over the world trusted a single company to keep the communications of their spies, soldiers and diplomats secret. The company, Crypto AG,... became a dominant maker of encryption devices for decades navigating waves of technology from mechanical gears to electronic circuits and, finally, silicon chips and software. But what none of its customers ever knew was that Crypto AG was secretly owned by the CIA in a highly classified partnership with West German intelligence. These spy agencies rigged the company’s devices so they could easily break the codes that countries used to send encrypted messages..." Very long read: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-security/cia-crypto-encryption-machines-espionage/?itid=hp_hp-top-table-main_crypto-730am:homepage/story-ans
From the country trying to convince everyone that Huawei are the big threat to telecoms and security we get another lesson on how to do it.
'No secret data transmitted over rigged devices linked to CIA' February 15, 2020 https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/510973
Swiss authorities file criminal complaint against encryption firm March 1, 2020 https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/crypto...al-complaint-against-encryption-firm/45588760
Swiss-Swedish Diplomatic Row Over Crypto AG October 6, 2020 https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/10/swiss-swedish-diplomatic-row-over-crypto-ag.html
Parliament says Switzerland benefitted from CIA-controlled encryption firm ...which sold rigged devices to some 120 countries including Iran, Pakistan, and India November 11, 2020 https://www.trtworld.com/europe/par...ted-from-cia-controlled-encryption-firm-41364