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Re: Buying and selling root certificates

  • From: Iljitsch van Beijnum
  • Date: Thu Apr 29 03:13:18 2004 
On 29-apr-04, at 7:02, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
The feds clearly have the power to get through or around encryption
suspected criminals are using: the FBI reports that there have been _zero_
cases nationwide over the past several years where the use of encryption has
prevented them or other agencies from obtaining the evidence needed, even
when "secure" tools like PGP, SSL, or IPsec are used.
I have a hard time believing this...

So what do they do? Send a team in to retrieve the key from your system? Borrow some CPU time from the NSA?