Report suggests North Korea has its own encryption system

By Rudy Takala

Published December 29, 2015 12:10am ET

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Report suggests North Korea has its own encryption system — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waves at a parade in Pyongyang, North Korea, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015. The country has been developing a form of intranet that precludes users from connecting with the outside world, since 2002. (AP File Photo/Wong Maye-E) | Wong Maye-E

North Korea has developed its own system of encryption, according to two researchers who presented their findings at a conference on Sunday.

“(Late leader) Kim Jong Il said North Korea should develop a system of their own,” German IT researcher Florian Grunow told Reuters before the presentation, delivered at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg. “This is what they’ve done.”

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