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[michael.holstein at csuohio.edu (Michael Holstein)]

> Granted the US govt has there own (classified) encryption algorithms 
> and as such that can't be replicated in a lab environment and requires 
> access to the physical medium carrying traffic encrypted by said 
> algorithms.

Which is why they do things like this : 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells

Of course these days, it doesn't require nearly as much effort .. just a 
friendly phone call to AT&T (who, ironically, also built the devices 
used in the above).

Cheers,

Michael Holstein
Cleveland State University