Originally posted here by Guan-Di
further, and please correct if i am mistaken, however, even if all of your own traffic and data is encrypted, just how long would that stand against the tools the government has; organizations akin to the NSA ? i am willing to bet a beer that their tools would shred anything the general public has in terms of protecting their data. meaning, i am thinking that there are backdoors to every application to allow the government acces in one form or fashion if required.
I would recomend you read about the RSA algorithm, the main encryption method employed today, untill someone finds a fast and efficient way of factoring primes of very lagre magnitude things are not going to change. Yes, the NSA might be able to break weaker RSA codes in a minimal amount of time, but there is no guarantee that the data decrypted is important or relevant, and then there is ofcourse the problem of the use of astronomicaly large prime numbers, which even the NSA cant hope to crack.

Their best approach would be a table of all possible high-order prime combinations, and that is STILL 2^n-1 where n is a very large number!

As far as the government is conserned, software encryption is not worth the effort. And it is easy to thwart by sending several garbage messages that could tie up any investigation for years.