No laws about backdoors here, but NSA has cracked pretty much all the encryption methods.

>If you are talking about tarnished rainbow table functions, yupp. And against determined targeted attack, again yupp. Encryption as standard way of life - might happen, but my optimistic estimates are known not to always have materialized ;-))
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>But if backdoors are required by law,that should steer smart people into cracking careers: either for the gov or as pirates...