The Dutch government should do nothing about the problem that cryptography poses to law enforcement.
All available options have more negative than positive consequences.
Although encoding programs potentially leave law-enforcement powerless to wiretap communications and to conduct computer searches, there is not a real solution to retrieve the keys to decipher encoded data. Koops, author of the Crypto Law Survey website, conducted a four-year research at Tilburg University and Eindhoven University of Technology. He analyzed the conflict of interests that cryptography poses to society. On the one hand, encryption is crucial for information security and for protecting privacy, but on the other hand, it enables criminals to escape the scrutiny of law enforcement. Governments are trying hard to address this conflict of interests, but their proposals for regulation have been controversial.