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Even assuming this is possible, which it isn’t, whose government would hold whose keys? It’s not like there’s one government and there isn’t international crime


US for US companies, China for Chinese companies. May be some kind of union.


So what happens when a chinese company hack into an american company, steal some industrial secrets and save them on their encrypted servers?

This isn’t some hypothetical scenario either http://time.com/106319/heres-what-chinese-hackers-actually-s...


What about multinationals? What about subsidiaries, like a Brazilian company which is fully owned by a USA company? Who would get the key, Brazil or the USA?




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