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Could we please all relax a bit. If the government tells you, they have a technology that can in principle be used, depending on type and quality of encryption, history shows us that this either means they can decrypt almost everything, or, most likely, not much. Both ways, they are not telling the complete truth at all. Especially the german government likes to tell us that they have something that can in principle be used for something, like using your issued ID for online activities, a nation wide health-card system, a working toll collect system, etc., the list just goes on and on and on... Anecdote: I remember, a couple of years ago, sitting in the audience of the yearly Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin in a talk by a pretty popular lawyer specializing in internet laws and regulation (IIRC the title was something like You have the right to stay silent; if you understand german, watch it, it's hilarious), where in the Q&A session somebody jumps up and tells the audience (paraphrased): ...the last time the police raided my home (much laughter from the audience) they took my encrypted disks with them (probably dmcrypt/luks or truecrypt) and after almost one year they still have not been able to decrypt a single bit of it... I'm pretty sure not much has changed with ciphers becoming even stronger these days. I, at least, sleep well at night, trusting that my PGP2 encrypted mails are safe. |