Protecting Sensitive Data: The Experience of Russia and the US

... algorithm that is practically impervious to decryption by the intelligence services and thus prevents them from accessing secret communications. This is clearly an advantage of the program, although it does mean that the company is in violation of existing Russian legislation. Telegram representatives were asked to provide the authorities with the encryption keys to the program. They refused to do so, prompting the Court of Moscow to rule in favour of Roskomnadzor on April 13, 2018 to block the social networking app throughout ...