Buying and selling root certificates

Thu Apr 29 07:10:55 UTC 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?