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Crypto AG is a Swiss company specialising in communications and information security. With headquarters in Steinhausen, the company is a long-established manufacturer of encryption machines and a wide variety of cipher devices. The company has about 230 employees, has offices in Abidjan, Abu Dhabi, Buenos Aires, Kuala Lumpur, Muscat, Selsdon and Steinhausen, and does business throughout the world.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Headquarters and regional offices worldwide )〕 The owner(s) of Crypto AG are unknown, supposedly even to the managers of firm, and they hold their ownership through bearer shares.〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=Leo Müller )〕 The company has been criticised for its links with the American and British national signals intelligence agencies, the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), respectively.〔〔 == History == Crypto AG was established in Switzerland by the Russian-born Swede, Boris Hagelin.〔 Mehdi Atmani, "Agents doubles", ''Le Temps'', Friday 21 August 2015, page 11.〕 Originally called AB Cryptoteknik and founded by Arvid Gerhard Damm in Stockholm in 1920, the firm manufactured the C-36 mechanical cryptograph machine that Damm had patented. After Damm's death, and just before the Second World War, Cryptoteknik came under the control of Boris Hagelin, an early investor, and during the War essentially operated in the United States, where 140,000 units were made under licence as C-38 (see M-209). In the early 1950s, it was transferred from Stockholm to Steinhausen as a result of a planned Swedish government nationalisation of militarily important technology contractors, and was incorporated in Switzerland in 1952. In 1994, Crypto AG bought InfoGuard AG, a company providing encryption solutions to banks.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Crypto AG」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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