According to well placed sources, the federal government could disencrypt PGP files in about 15 minutes, with resources that existed 15-20 years ago.
They carried on quite a disinformation campaign, bellyaching because they couldn't penetrate the code, and a lot of people thought they were safe when they used it. Well, that was the point.
There have been recent advances in cryptography that make even the best ciphers much easier to break.
I do know of one "left field" system that is probably less vulnerable, but that is no sure thing.
I suppose you could frustrate someone by encrypting a table of random numbers....
Last edited by denton; 10/02/13.
