That might be the case, but even the NSA will not be able to decrypt a well encrypted message - or so we think at least. That all said - and I realize that thi

That might be the case, but even the NSA will not be able to decrypt a well encrypted message - or so we think at least. That all said - and I realize that this might be controversial - I fully agree with wiretaps as long as there is a warrant (and I mean a real warrant from a real court on a case-by-case basis). With its sweeping data collection the NSA is doing itself a disservice as it will eventually lead to wider use of strong encryption, which will make wiretaps with warrants much more expensive (or even impossible) to serve. I think new laws for stricter limitations on exporting cryptography software or even restricting cryptography itself are likely in the near future. This will lead to interesting trials where folks might be forced to reveal their encryption keys; and the inability to prove whether there actually is encrypted data (good encrypted data is indistinguishable from random data, and some folks wipe old harddrives with random data before they are discarded, how would one prove that this is really random data?)