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If that were the case we wouldn’t trust any financial transaction. In know encryption, I’ve a background applying it in software systems. Yes, there’s a brute force approach to cracking a *specific* device/message but you’d want to have an extremely good reason to put the computing horsepower behind doing so. You couldn’t do it for everything you capture. Even then, depending on the encryption used, it could take a long time. Capturing encrypted content is a long way from knowing the decrypted content.

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Think who may have really developed the encryption software, did the NSA have a hand it the development? Or did the NSA put a back door into the software? Or what about the vulnerabilities in chips made by Intel and other companies that, if exploited, could leave passwords and other sensitive data exposed?

Remember that the Germans also believed that their Enigma machines were unbreakable.

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https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/how-the-nsa-can-break-trillions-of-encrypted-web-and-vpn-connections/

How the NSA can break trillions of encrypted Web and VPN connections

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