[Cryptography] Encryption doesn't seem to have bothered organisations who aren't the FBI

[Florian Weimer]

* Peter Gutmann:

> Quoted from "Moscow contacted rebels charged with downing MH17: Investigators'"
> https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/11/moscow-contacted-rebels-charged-downing-mh17-investigators-191114190558017.html
>
>   "There was almost daily telephone contact between the leadership of the DPR
>   and their contacts in the Russian Federation," JIT [Joint Investigative
>   Team] said in a statement on Thursday, using the acronym of the Donetsk
>   People's Republic rebels.
>
>   The calls mostly took place over secure phones provided by Russian security
>   forces, it said.
>
> Maybe the next time the FBI claim that the existence of encryption will lead
> to the collapse of civilisation, they can ask the countries in the Joint
> Investigative Team (Australia, Belgium, Malaysia, the Netherlands and Ukraine)
> for help.  The use of Russian military encryption doesn't seem to have
> bothered them much.

They did not decrypt the phone calls.  The JIT wrote this earler in
their witness appeal:

| In addition to regular telephones, DPR-members used secure means of
| communication. A number of these seem to be provided by the Russian
| Federation and, moreover, used by Russian top officials in their
| contact with the fighters.
|
| The JIT has found indications that the security service FSB provided
| telephones that cannot be wiretapped. […]

<https://www.politie.nl/themas/flight-mh17/witness-appeal-crash-mh17.html#alinea-title-means-of-communication>