Conventional encryption (strong or otherwise) does absolutely nothing to prevent wiretaps. If the encryption algorithm that's used is well respected among cryp

Conventional encryption (strong or otherwise) does absolutely nothing to prevent wiretaps. If the encryption algorithm that's used is well respected among cryptographers and has no known, practically exploitable weaknesses; if this algorithm has been implemented correctly in the encryption software; if the software is used properly by every party involved in the communcation; if these parties' systems have not been compromised; if the people or entitites interested in your communication are not (like the NSA is speculated to be) 20 to 30 years ahead of the public cryptography community -- all very big if's -- then you might buy yourself some time until the encryption is finally broken (something that might happen tomorrow, or next month, or next year, or 20 years from now, or never, who knows?). In the meantime, your encrypted communication could be intercepted, recorded, and stored indefinitely -- and available for a practically limitless number of decryption attempts in the future.