A lot of countries seemingly did not have access to American encryption technologies or did not trust them — arguably for good reasons[0] — which has lead to this hodge-podge of homegrown security.
Yeah I found his problem in the first line of the article
> KrebsOnSecurity recently had occasion to contact the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
The FSB is not equivalent to the FBI, it's the successor to the KGB. If it's equivalent to any other country's org, look to the Gestapo.
They're problems with cryptography insofar as they are problems that can be traced back to a distrust of Western cryptography and a desire to create domestic security products.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/06/adventures-in-contacting...
A lot of countries seemingly did not have access to American encryption technologies or did not trust them — arguably for good reasons[0] — which has lead to this hodge-podge of homegrown security.
[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-...