since the summer of 2015, cases have been fought between major tech companies such as apple over the regulation of encryption with government agencies asking for access to private encrypted information for law enforcement purposes. a technical report was written and published by mit computer science and artificial intelligence laboratory, where ronald rivest, an inventor of rsa, and harold abelson, a computer science professor at mit with others, explain the technical difficulties, including security issues that arise from the regulation of encryption or by making a key available to a third party for purposes of decrypting any possible encrypted information. the report lists scenarios and raises questions for policy makers. it also asks for more technical details if the request for regulating encryption is to be pursued further.