Cryptographic backdoors

Cryptographic backdoors are essentially a “master key” that can unlock every piece of encrypted data that uses a specific encryption protocol

Encryption standards like AES use end-to-end encryption so that only the parties that have exchanged a randomly generated cryptographic key are able to decrypt the information being shared

Backdoors are a way of breaking this secure conversation, manipulating the complex mathematics of a specific cryptographic protocol to give an outside user access to all of the encrypted data being shared between parties