Two new papers on the encryption debate

Seems like everyone is writing about encryption and backdoors this season.

• “Policy Approaches to the Encryption Debate,” R Street Policy Study #133, by Charles Duan, Arthur Rizer, Zach Graves and Mike Godwin.

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